Re: Putting contact details on web pages

**"* P* L* <t*@spamfodder.com>**

> If you are worried about spam due to phone and email details 
> appearing on your website, you can reduce this by incorporating them 
> within a picture (gif or jpeg file), rather than in the text.
> 
> It does mean that customers have to manually transcribe these 
> details, as they can't just click through or cut and paste, but it 
> does help cut out spam-bots.

To be honest, images with text don't help much with spam prevention.  
There are plenty of tools out there that spammers employ to do OCR (optical 
character recognition) on graphics pages.  Using fuzzy logic, they can
easily extract words and phrases.  GOCR is one such tool:

   http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

On the plus side, many sites use software like GOCR to scan incoming images
for text to determine if the images are spam mails or not.  I do that 
for the servers that I administer as part of my day job.

There's no silver bullet.  Just put the information out and deal with the
consequences if it's important to your business.  :)

Chris

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