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  Post #1 (permalink)   10-15-2004, 01:01 AM
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People shift from providing email addresses to using forms (for contact) in order to avoid spam

bots. But there are some new spam bots today which can detect email address even through forms

present on a website. Any solution to prevent this?

generally the form action is as follows

<form action="xyz@xyz.com">

Any other way this can be written to prevent it from being detected by spam bots?
 
 
 


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  Post #2 (permalink)   10-15-2004, 07:04 AM
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I doubt many emails gathering bots use OCR so post your email as an image.
 
 
 


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  Post #3 (permalink)   10-15-2004, 09:01 AM
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Or you could do something like this.

Create a config file and store the email address in that. Put the config file inside a password protected folder. Then include/retrieve the config file using the contact form.
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  Post #4 (permalink)   10-16-2004, 05:07 PM
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or you can use something as simple as a php script so when they submit the info it submits it to another page which if all the information is there it really then sends the form which is quit easily done. kind of complicated how to say exactly to do it but it's easy to do.
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  Post #5 (permalink)   10-23-2004, 08:29 AM
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Take a look at:

http://phpmailto.xeweb.net
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  Post #6 (permalink)   11-18-2004, 09:49 AM
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I think http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=152895 will be the best choice . I dind't try it but I guess it is a good one. Try it out and see....
 
 
 
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