Will Putting Spaces Between The User Name And Domain Name Keep Spammers From Finding My E-mail Address?
RSS

Will Putting Spaces Between The User Name And Domain Name Keep Spammers From Finding My E-mail Address?

Category: FAQ   Time: 2009-11-07   Tags: , , , , , , , ,

I’ve set up a new e-mail address for a new site I’m working on and was wondering if putting spaces before and after the @ will keep spammers from harvesting my new e-mail address from the site. Or is there a better way to do this?

Next: I’ve Bought A Domain Name, And Now I Want To Host It At Home. How Do I Do That?
Previous: Expired Domain Name – Has It Been Bought?
"Will Putting Spaces Between The User Name And Domain Name Keep Spammers From Finding My E-mail Address?" was posted on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 8:29 pm.

6 Responses to “Will Putting Spaces Between The User Name And Domain Name Keep Spammers From Finding My E-mail Address?”
  1. lchasser(2009-11-07):

    If your email is on a web site, just do a search on ‘java email hider’
    You can insert a java script that will hide your actual email address from email harvester software.
    Sarge

  2. Tracy L(2009-11-08):

    Put it in an image and don’t make it click able for contact and you will be fairly safe from the harvesters. Use a CONTACT form which mails to you and don’t publish it is even better.
    If you put in an image then do not refferrence it in an alt tag so far the harvesters haven’t figured out how to read that too easy. But any form used if the email is on the site, someone will find it and may indeed publish it. I put the images in a div tag and make the div background that image, that way even the image can’t be copied easily. But like number one, I tell people to use contact forms! (Be careful with them, if they are not done correctly spammers can use them to SEND mail to anyone!)

  3. irishtek(2009-11-08):

    no, that won’t stop them from finding the email address.
    I recomend that people setup a contact form that will email the person, instead of posting the email address on the site.

  4. Marshal Jed Cooper(2009-11-08):

    no it will not. But using at is one way. another is to put dot instead of the dot.

  5. Rob(2009-11-08):

    Yes, as long as people know to correct it before they try to email you, it will work most times.

  6. Sean(2009-11-08):

    That will help stop software bots from coming to the website and finding the email address, but it isn’t the best method. What I recommend is to make the email address an image, so it can be read by humans, and not bots.
    You can do this in many of the image editing programs out there, like Gimp, Paint, Photoshop, etc…
    Cheers,
    Sean

Leave a Reply

 
Recent Posts
Random Posts