Spam Strategy Guide

The issue of having publically viewable email links that aren’t able to be harvested is still occurring

If this makes sense to you then please comment and explain how?

• I want a visitor to my site to be able to easily copy my email address to their email application.
• I don’t like images or feedback forms because of the above reason
• I am receiving copious quantities of email spam from my web site email address

To me the solution seems obvious … if someone is serious in making contact with you then they will complete a contact form in the first instance. Once they have proven their bona fides and you respond they then have the privelage of spamming the heck out of you (pun intended).

Andreas from Zargony has an article Scramble email addresses in views to reduce spam … the interesting thing about this article, which relates to the use of Ruby on Rails to achieve the scramble, is that nowhere did he provide a live example to prove that it actually works.

I figure that if it actually worked then this statement would not be there … The question is left open, if this method is worth anything.

Action: If the value proposition you place on your web site is compelling to the viewer then a simple form will not be a mountain to climb. The next thing to think of is if that form is getting punished with tyre kickers then make the form longer, collect more data, to get the serious people to contact you.