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the script works ok.

all i want to know is - Is this page (email) viewable in all browsers and operating systems. If you have a tool that can do this please check this page for me. Is the "someone@somewhere.com" email showing on all cirscumstances ?

http://www.geocities.com/usa_49237/

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Sorry to have to tell you this, most email bots read javascript, a better way is to scrabble the letters using unicode, @ = & #64;(no space between & and #) etc but end result is still harvestable
Best way is to use a server side form - no email addresses involved

<?bhb if(broken){ echo("It wasn't me Smiling "); } ?>
Learn HTML the ez way - EzHTML.net

Some people are like slinkies, they dont really serve any purpose but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs ...

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Pesonaly, I put my e-mail address on most of my work for the past 2 years. I get very little spam with no blocker installed.

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I had one of my email addresses on a comic book/action figure collecting site for somewhere between 4-6 years. I get hundreds of spam emails a day. I can tell you from experience that a server-side script to handle contact is the way to go.

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thanks for the replies. other thing i wanted to know was - is this page (email address made by script) viewable in all browsers and operating systems.

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answer yes because you have told the browser what to display, only way it wouldn't display is if javascript was turned off - which is very common to avoid pop ups/unders/sliders

<?bhb if(broken){ echo("It wasn't me Smiling "); } ?>
Learn HTML the ez way - EzHTML.net

Some people are like slinkies, they dont really serve any purpose but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs ...

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I'd like to piggy back on this topic. For years I've used a scramling script from http://www.z-host.com/scripts/iscramble. I always thought it worked fine and maybe you guys can tell me otherwise, but I just checked the source code in Firefox and FF reveals all the scrambled text. What's up with that?

Nip it in the bud!

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I just don't see the spammers purpose. I personally have NEVER purchased anything, visited, or participated in anything I received via spam. I just delete, delete , delete.

I would believe that their conversion cannot ever be more than 1%. But I guess 1% of 1 million emails is 10k which is not bad at all.

I HATE SPAMMERS!