Hide Email Address and Block Automated Form Fillers

Hiding Email Addresses

If there was one spam email that should be sent to every website owner, the subject would read like this...

Spam search engines spider the web 24/7 looking for <mailto:> tags. When they find one, it is added to their spam email data base.

You can find a number of schemes to hide email addresses by just Googling the keywords "hide email address". We have found that the best for us is to use a form that uses the server to send the email. You can find a "hide your email" tutorial at http://www.rbsdot.com/website_design_tutorials.php

Block Automated Form Fillers

Have you noticed your mailbox filling up with multiple responses from your website forms? Well, the source is probably from a "forms blaster" robot. Forms blasters are pain in the you-know-what automated forms fillers. They find your form and then loop through your form over and over again, generating sometimes hundreds of worthless emails, that you have to delete.

Read how to deal with these idiots in the Captchas Tutorial