Displaying email addresses

[anthonymcg]

We've got a contact section our site listing out names and phone numbers along with email addresses. I'm wondering what's the best way to combat spam bots from copying these addresses down? Should I use something like:

firstname.lastname [at] whatever.com

??

Appreciate some feedback.

 

[Gavin]

You could place the email address inside a script but if you are like me (lazy) just add an image that states the email address.

How about a contact form?

 

[mneylon]

I used to use a simple php script to handle it ie. on the page you had user => script which converts to user@domain

It stopped a lot of the junk

 

[anthonymcg]

You could place the email address inside a script but if you are like me (lazy) just add an image that states the email address.

How about a contact form?

Images aren't really an option because of usability.

On the contact form, not too sure how I'd make that work inside our existing CMS. Will look into it.

I used to use a simple php script to handle it ie. on the page you had user => script which converts to user@domain

It stopped a lot of the junk

How does that work? The script is parsed and the email is shown normally anyway?

 

[mneylon]

Instead of a mailto link you use a href one... The script does the conversion for you

 

[anthonymcg]

Oh right, I see what ya mean.

 

[louie]

Something like this should do it:

email: <a title="info" rel="domain.ie" href="mailto:info[at symbol]domain.ie" onclick="this.href='mailto:'+this.getAttribute('title')+'@'+this.getAttribute('rel')"><span>Send Us an Email</span></a>

 

[ButtermilkJack]

You could place the email address inside a script...

here's one I found a few years back and have been using it eversince. Can't remember where I got it but no doubt on some helpful tutorial site

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--
var username = "name";
var hostname = "domain.xx";
var linktext = username + "@" + hostname;
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + username +
"@" + hostname + ">" + linktext + "</a>")
//-->
</script>

Probably similar to ideas already mentioned above but it's a nice little script I think.