posted on April 2, 2001 06:02:35 PM
If you have an e-mail link on your ebay auction page or on a web page and you do not want spidering bots harvesting your e-mail address to be used by spammers you can insert the code below in place of your current e-mail link.
You only need to change the words in bold with your e-mail address.
This example uses the e-mail address of "webmaster @your-domain.com"
<script language="Javascript">
<!--
//this simple script by a1javascripts.com
//please leave credit and instructions intact
//simply enter your emailname and emailserver below
//and copy and paste to entire script where you want it to show.
emailname = "webmaster"
emailserver = "your-domain.com"
//change the font face, color and size below
document.write("<font face='Arial,Helvetica' size=-1>" ) ;
document.write("<a href='mailto:" + emailname + "@" + emailserver + "'>" ) ;
document.write("<font color='ff0000'>" ) ;
document.write(emailname + "@" + emailserver);
document.write("</a>" ) ;
document.write("</font>" ) ;
//-->
</script>
When this script is used the spider-bots will not be able to harvest your e-mail address.
posted on April 3, 2001 05:20:24 AM
Unfortunately, those that have JavaScript blocked (by a privete or corporate firewall) can't use the link.
There is one way thet can be seen by almost all browsers, and by NO spiders:
Use the HTML ENTITIES instead of the keyboard characters for some of all of the address. The spiders are looking for the @ sign with text in front of it and the period. To a lesser degree, they look for the mailto: code.
http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html has the codes They all start with &# and end with ; and have a number in the middle
