Re: Contact Info Best practices

From: Rob Frankel <rob_at_robfrankel.com>
Date: Fri 19 Aug 2005 10:41:54 -0500

Brad Jensen wrote thusly:

>> I almost never provide email addresses on a web site, but
>> instead use an online contact form, such as the one at
>> http://www.adastro.com/contact.html . The page also includes
>
>> postal address, phone, and fax information of course, for the
>> reasons stated by the other posters.
>
>You can avoid the data miners to a great degree by making your email
>link do a JavaScript function that assembles the email
>address, there are a number of examples how to do this on the web.

When you get right down to it, the snake oil salesmen who spam you
aren't the real spam problem. The real problem are the DOS attacks,
which are not the result of e-mail harvesting. They're automated
attacks that have no other purpose than to bring down servers.

I have links all over my site and have had the same ones for years.
I still get the same amount of sales spam as I always did. One day,
my ISP's machines were hit with a DOS. THAT'S the real problem, and
no scripts or tricks will avoid them. If there's an attack
perpetrated by an evil server, it's going to get you.
--
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