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Ask HN: What is the current wisdom on displaying e-mail addresses?
With crawlers and your daily dose of malignant software, what is the safest and most convenient way of displaying an e-mail address today?
John Gruber seems to use a piece of JS that doesn't work in Opera from my experiences, and others split up their addresses or replace certain characters. Applying this latter strategy has reached a point where I am not sure that non-intermediate internet users will get it and won't send me an e-mail altogether.
Is "mailto:" a relic of the past?
- donohoe 16y agoI'm not sure if this is what Gruber uses, but it seems to do a good jon (supposedly): http://hivelogic.com/enkoder http://hivelogic.com/enkoder I'm sure you could do your own simper but unique variation.
- spooneybarger 16y agoGmail. I use gmail and have my address all over the web in easily crawlable text and get less than 10 spam emails a year ending up in my inbox.
- nyef 16y agoOn all my websites I just use a contact form that sends me an email directly so my email address is never displayed.
- danielrm26 16y agoObfuscation of email addresses is, and has been, obsolete for some time in my opinion. My address on a domain thats been active since 99' is everywhere in it's plain form, and I get so little spam that it's a surprise when I do.