Re: [OT]: how to protect e-mail on website?

["Gary" <questuk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks all for your help,

looks like it will be an image after all, isn't it ridiculous, the
Internet was created to communicate, and the very thing we use to do
this with, is e-mail, and we have to use an image instead of actual link!

world gone mad lol!


regards Gary


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@...>
wrote:
>
> > I assume some of you have your own web pages, how do you go about
it?
>
> Various tricks exist.  The simplest is to make an image of your e-mail
> address.  That way people have to retype it to send you mail.  Most
bots
> aren't going to take the time to run an optical character recognizer
on one
> person's contact image.
>
> Otherwise you learn to use a throwaway public address.  I've used
mine on
> hotmail for the past 5 years and it's worked quite well.  I also use a
> program called 'hotwayd' running on a linux box to pull the mail
from there
> and put them into a locally stored IMAP server mailbox.  This way I
don't
> have to put up with their web interface for reading the messages.
>
> -Bill Kearney
>