A contact page, several questions

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I am building a website for an artist who would like a contact page with email address, landline phone, cell #, and town/state available. Should I be concerned about the email address being picked up for spamming, is there a way to mask it from a spam bot while a visitor can still read the address. or is this probably not a concern.

Also, when I am on a contact page clicking on a person’s email address often pops open my Mac Mail application with an email ready to compose, and address prepopulated. Can you do this with an action?

–Thanks so much!

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Hi Waylen,
There are several ways to either hide or obfuscate an e-mail address
to prevent spam bots harvesting the address;

  1. Freeway now entity encodes e-mail addresses by default which will
    protect you from most spam bots,
  2. The Anti Spam action (http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=002
    ) is a commercial action ($10 USD) I created a number of years ago
    that obfuscates e-mail addresses using a number of different and
    unique methods ranging from simple entity encoding through to ASP or
    PHP masking.
  3. Use a feedback form (such as the free PHP Feedback Form action at http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=019)
    to remove the e-mail address from the page entirely. Rather than
    have the user use their own e-mail client to send the e-mail they
    imply fill out a simple form which gets e-mailed directly from the
    server using PHP.
    All the best,
    Tim.

On 30 Nov 2008, at 17:59, Waylen wrote:

I am building a website for an artist who would like a contact page
with email address, landline phone, cell #, and town/state
available. Should I be concerned about the email address being
picked up for spamming, is there a way to mask it from a spam bot
while a visitor can still read the address. or is this probably not
a concern.

Also, when I am on a contact page clicking on a person’s email
address often pops open my Mac Mail application with an email ready
to compose, and address prepopulated. Can you do this with an action?

–Thanks so much!

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