Do you avoid clear text email addresses in web pages?
Last updated by Tiago Araújo [SSW] 3 months ago.See historyClear text email addresses in web pages are very dangerous because it gives spam sender a chance to pick up your email address, which produces a lot of spam/traffic to your mail server, this will cost you money and time to fix.
Never put clear text email addresses on web pages.
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<a href="mailto:test@ssw.com.au">Contact Us</a>Bad - Using a plain email address that it will be crawled and made use of easily
<a href="javascript:sendEmail('74657374407373772e636f6d2e6175')" onmouseover="javascript:displayStatus('74657374407373772e636f6d2e6175');return true;" onmouseout="javascript:clearStatus(); return true;">Contact Us</a>Good - Using an encoded email address
Tip: If you use Wordpress, use the Email Encoder Bundle plugin to help you encode email addresses easily.
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