Posted by admin in Uncategorized on 08 31st, 2009 | If you put an email address directly on a web page–any web page–it can be picked up by spam bots. These spammers will send spam to your email inbox constantly. One way around this is to encode your email address into ASCII.
For example, tms@themarketingshop.com would become tms@themarke
tingshop.com
It may look like one long code in the HTML, but the browser will interpret the ASCII and turn it into English letters.
Each letter has a corresponding ASCII code, you simply need to substitute each letter with an ASCII code such as:
t = t
m = m
s = s
You should encode the whole email address starting at ‘mailto’ so that spammers don’t pick up on the fact that there is an email address.
This web page contains a whole list showing what the ASCII code for each letter is:
http://www.nationalfinder.com/html/char-asc.htm
