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From: Michael D. Roush
Date: Thu, Apr 08 2004 10:10AM
Subject: Re: Anti-spam email links in Javascript
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In my opinion, the link to a form-mail page is a great idea, but I wouldn't
put it in a <noscript> tag. Besides people who don't have javascript
enabled, the 'mailto' link also isn't functional for people who have no
default mail client (say, people using a public computer, such as at a
library). I prefer form-mail pages even when a mailto link is available.
One of these days, someone is going to develop an address harvester that
circumvents the javascript scramblers, but a server-side form should always
be less prone to being spammed.
Just saying "email address obscured due to spam" seems to me to be saying
"Sorry about your luck, but we're not giving you our e-mail address." I see
no problems at all with the link to the form, but as I said, I would make it
available to people with scriping enabled as well.
Michael
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From: "Mike Brockington" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Is it acceptable to use a <no-script> tag to say something like: "email
address obscured due to spam" ?
> This would seem to me to go against the general principle of providing
alternate versions of non-accessible content.
> The only other option that I have been able to think of is to have the
<noscript> section provide a link to a form-mail page. Do you think that
this counts as 'equivalent' to a mailto: link?
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