Comments on: Nice Tiny Url Trick To Protect Your Email Address From Spam

By: DtD Software

DtD Software — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:39:23 +0000

I know people that don’t trust TinyURL because it masks the real place you’re going to. EG: I’ve clicked on a TinyURL before on deviantART and it redirected me to the Logout page, which is a pain because that logs me out of both of my computers ~x(

~DtD

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:45:05 +0000

Well, come to think of this… I suppose one could create for example contact.php and make it change location to the email…

By: MrPhil

MrPhil — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:29:52 +0000

I’ve been using the tinyurl for several years and I don’t think it has been picked up by any bots, at least not yet. I hadn’t considered it being treated as spyware. I wanted a solution that makes it very easy for someone to email me. Forms and captcha etc are a barrier to that. Jake’s solution is interesting. Does it avoid the spyware issues?

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:27:16 +0000

So I use this method: http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html

Do people think that most bots (or only some bots) can still get the email no probs?

By: Sargon

Sargon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:24 +0000

Actually I don’t have captcha in the contact form. But I could easily set it to have.
Though I wonder if I should have captcha in ContactUs form? because it could be really annoying to have to fill captcha just for a single message.

By: Sargon

Sargon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:41:14 +0000

TinyUrl tends to be treated as a spyware in my firewall program.
What I have is a contact us form with captcha.
Though using an image is probably a pretty good solution, instead of having a password in captcha, you simply imitate captcha by putting your email in an image.

By: hatu

hatu — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:45:55 +0000

I just show mine in regular text now, having my email linked to my Gmail account gets rid of 99.9% of the spam