Rewriting email addresses

[Guest]

Is it possible to rewrite email addresses on a page load to prevent those email harvesting spam bots from reading them? Basically, convert the mailto link on the page to one containing the ASCII characters for each letter?

[Brett]

You can't do this with mod_rewrite, since a mailto: link is processed by the browser.

I actually tried something like this recently, replacing the @ sign with %40, and it seemed to work ... until I discovered it wasn't compatible with some versions of AOL.

You could probably do something with JavaScript. For example, the following works in MSIE; I haven't tested other browsers.
<A HREF="mail" onClick="this.href='mailto:name'+'@domain'">link</A>

[Guest]

Here is an article taht provides some ideas to deal with spambots:

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/spam/

[nobodyhome]

what you really want is this baby, the Anti-Spam Address Encoder. spambots can't make a thing of the code, but it displays just fine if you've got javascript enabled (most people do).

http://hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php