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Regardless of the effectiveness of spam filters (unless they are literally perfect - 100% precision and 100% recall), doing something like the "Building with Ja
by FaceKicker 14y ago
Regardless of the effectiveness of spam filters (unless they are literally perfect - 100% precision and 100% recall), doing something like the "Building with Javascript" method seems strictly better than doing nothing based on the linked study - it reduces spam by 99.3% and adds no work for humans who want to email you. Except for humans who have JS disabled by default, I guess...
- nickknw 14y agoThat's exactly why I use a combination method on my personal website[0]. By default it uses the JS method for a clickable link, but if someone doesn't have JS enabled it degrades to "Email: nick at this domain (For a clickable link, turn on javascript)". It relies on the assumption that 'someone not using javascript' == 'someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means', but for the people that are likely to be reading my site, I think that's a pretty safe assumption to make. [0] - http://nickknowlson.com/contact/ http://nickknowlson.com/contact/
- weinzierl 14y ago'someone not using javascript' == 'someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means' || crawler
- nickknw 14y agoAre you saying: 'someone not using javascript' == ('someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means' || crawler)? If so, yes that's the point. I don't want to give crawlers my email address.