Re: email address disguises

[Richard Jones <richard.t.jones@uconn.edu>]

Mark,

The mailto: href should be avoided.  Most people do not need to mail
directly from the link, they just want to know what the address is so
they can copy it into their address book.  The following html is a
somewhat better camo than the ones you showed.  It does require the
special css header to work as desired.  The text displays properly, but
cut-and-paste (and automated harvesting methods) pick up the chaff.

[somewhere in the html header]
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
  span.address span { display: none;}
</STYLE>

[somewhere in the html body]
<span
class="address">Richard.T<span>urk</span>.Jo<span>han</span>nes@uconn<span>ecticut</span>.edu<span>cate.adsl.athelos.com</span></span>

Richard Jones

Mark M. Ito wrote:
> One thing I have used is
>
>  <A 
> HREF="mailto:&#109;&#097;&#114;&#107;&#105;&#064;&#106;&#108;&#097;&#098;&#046;&#111;&#114;&#103;>&#109;&#097;&#114;&#107;&#105;&#064;&#106;&#108;&#097;&#098;&#046;&#111;&#114;&#103;</A> 
>
>
>
> but I don't know if that really works. The other thing I have seen is
>
> marki at jlab dot org
>
> with no mailto href. Or we can password protect the addresses, though 
> that is my least favorite option. Thoughts?
>