Hiding from Spambots

If you don't control the mail server that your web pages are hosted on, you will not be able to actively redirect spambots, but there are steps you can take by altering the mail links on your webpages.

Generalised Hiders and Descriptions
Javascript Email Encoders
HTML Character Entities
CSS Encoding
Passive Web-based Scripts
Web-based Contact Pages
Other Methods
Manual Address Munging

Spambot Honeytokens

Generalised Hiders and Descriptions

These give you a variety of choices on how to encode your addresses, and some explain what's going on as well.

How and Why of obfuscating your address - members.cox.net/timandbeth/spam/
Hiding Email From Spammers - www.ecomhelp.com/KB/internet/kb_hiding-from-spammers.htm
Encode Your Email Address - mypage.direct.ca/s/schinke/encode/ - mirrors: 1
Email Address Encoder - rumkin.com/tools/mailto_encoder/ - mirrors: 1
Webmasters' Guide to Outsmarting Idiot Spammers - www.cexx.org/spamguide.htm
Win the Spam Arms Race - www.alistapart.com/articles/spam/
Anti-Spam Tips – How to Get Less Spam - www.altruists.org/projects/ga/free_services/as/
Obfuscating e-mail addresses - www.december14.net/ways/js/nospam.shtml
Hiding Email Addresses - www.csarven.ca/hiding-email-addresses
Fighting SpamBots - post.queensu.ca/~trd/other/unscrapable.html

HTML Character Entities

Online HTML Character Converters
Downloadable HTML Character Converters
About HTML Character Entities

Online HTML Character Converters

E-mail Anti-Spam Encoder - www.siteup.com/encoder.html - sends encoded address to you by email
fantomas mailShield - fantomaster.com/famshield0.html
Email Address Encoder - www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html
Verstecken Sie Ihre E-Mail Adresse - www.lerneniminternet.de/htm/tip_spam-email.html
Email, Link and Text Protector - mkweb.bcgsc.bc.ca/emailencode/
Hiding your email address from spammers - homepages.comnet.co.nz/disguise.html
Email Obfuscator - www.alicorna.com/obfuscator.html
Spam-me-not - www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/
Spam-me-not E-mail Link Obfuscator - www.ianr.unl.edu/email/encode/
Prevent Spam - manas.tungare.name/projects/prevent-spam/
Protect your Email Address - www.killersites.com/webDesignersHandbook/emailObscucator.htm
Encode Your Email Addresses For Free - www.knechtology.com/stop-spam/email_encoder.html
Iconico Online Email Protector - www.iconico.com/emailProtector/

Downloadable HTML Character Converters

mailto obfuscator - www.awes.com/obfuscator/ - Win
E Cloaker - www.codefoot.com/software/ecloaker/ - Win
- Mac
Spam-me-not - www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/ - Java, CFML, PHP, ASP, Python
Obfuscator Tool - obfuscatortool.sourceforge.net/

About HTML Character Entities

HTML Entities - www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html
Special Characters - www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/HTMLGuide/specialCharacters2.htm
Unicode Index - fantomaster.com/faunicodes.html

CSS Encoding

Clever and innovative, this site shows how to use CSS to hide an email address from spambots.

Hiding email address from spambots - phoenity.com/newtedge/hide_email_spambots/

Passive Web-based Scripts

Redirect mailto - jamesthornton.com/software/redirect-mailto.html - Perl, OpenACS, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP
PHP FormM@iler - www.dbmasters.net/index.php?id=19 - PHP
CGI program - cui.unige.ch/~queloz/AntiSpam.en.html - C

Web-based Contact Pages

These services provide a webform so you can avoid using your email address at all. If you operate your own mailserver you could install a formmail script, but be aware that people might be able to spam through it if you're not careful.

Contact-us-online - www.contact-us-online.com/
spambot.com - www.spambot.com/
Morgle - www.morgle.com/
XInbox - xinbox.com/
SpamBlock - www.supportsentry.com/spamblock.html
bloXpam - www.bloxpam.com/
PageMailr - pagemailr.com/
iNames - www.inames.net/service_contact.html