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How to Prevent Spam Bots From Collecting Email Addresses

As I mentioned before in How to Include Subject, CC, BCC, and Email Body in Email Links, you are creating a risk to get spam if you simply placing email addresses on a page without encoding them.

Some websites using “[at]” to replace “@” and email will look as “name [at] domain.com”. This is a good idea for personal websites since nobody challenge you. In commercial, many clients wouldn’t allow you to use “name [at] domain.com” this format. They are not web designer and they don’t understand how spam prevention works, or even care for that matter.

I have this method originally from david walsh blog. Its author have a quick PHP script that you can use when putting raw email addresses on a page:

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How to Include Subject, CC, BCC, and Email Body in Email Links

It is so easy to create a email link in our web page. Everyone who know or even don’t know HTML, they can easily create an email link by software.

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However, they are not always know that they can include subject, CC, BCC, and email body text information in the link as well. By using a querystring-like syntax, we can do more with that simple link.

Example code to add the subject:

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Example code to add the cc’s and bcc’s:

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