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Our efforts to reduce spam

Spammers use automatic programmes (called robots or spiders) to crawl around the Web, “harvesting” e-mail addresses from web pages.

That is why this site presents e-mail address links in a special way to defeat the nefarious robots. But this technique relies on JavaScript, which is not enabled in your browser.

Which is why you have landed on this page

This means you will have to enter the e-mail address manually into your e-mail programme.

When you do so, simply replace the “(at)” in the address with an “@”.
(Example: recipient(at)example.com becomes recipient@example.com.)

Sorry for the extra work, but thanks for helping us thwart the spammers.



If you want to do the same on your site, here is the technique:

Instead of using the straight email in the link, as so:
Send mail to <a href="mailto:recipient@example.com">recipient@example.com</a>.
...which looks like this in the browser: [Send mail to recipient@example.com.]

use this version of the link:
Send mail to <a href="antispam_email.html" onmouseover="this.href='mai' + 'lto:' + 'recipient' + '@' + 'example.com'">recipient(at)example.com</a>.
...which looks like this in the browser: [Send mail to recipient(at)example.com.]

That is all there is to it. If the users’s browser does not support JavaScript, the link takes them to a web page you will create named “antispam_email.html” (which is the page you are now viewing).

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Updated: 12 August 2004