Encode email addresses

25 June 2004 · 0 comments

A client just queried: I’ve had various people tell me not to put my email address on my website (because of concerns about scripts harvesting email addresses for spamming) — what do you reckon? (and if that is a legitimate concern is there a way around it?) I do put up my address and I [...]

 

A client just queried:

I’ve had various people tell me not to put my email

address on my website (because of concerns about scripts harvesting email

addresses for spamming) — what do you reckon? (and if that is a

legitimate concern is there a way around it?)

I do put up my address and I deal with the spam. However, you could encode your e-mail address through the use of Character Entities, transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity.

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