Obfuscating E-mail Addresses
Do you ever wonder how your E-mail address gets on so many spam mailing
lists? One way spammers collect E-mail addresses is from web pages. To
help combat this problem, you can make your E-mail address show up in
scrambled javascript in the HTML source, yet it it will look and work
correctly in the browser. This is done with the
{mailto} plugin.
Example 18-8. Example of Obfuscating an E-mail Address {* in index.tpl *}
Send inquiries to
{mailto address=$EmailAddress encode="javascript" subject="Hello"} |
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Technical Note:
This method isn't 100% foolproof. A spammer could conceivably program his
e-mail collector to decode these values, but not likely....hopefully.
See also escape
and
{mailto}.
