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All Forums > Tech Talk > Tech Talk Forum Page 35 > How's that [email][/email] tag supposed to work?
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Drew Black
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Posted - Apr 10 2007 : 4:37PM
I saw pornlaw made a post today that had the tags [Email]email@address.com[/Email] in it. How are these tags supposed to work? What do they do?
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Posted - Apr 10 2007 : 4:41PM
Maybe he's hoping they'll confuse the spiders.
Drew Black
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Posted - Apr 10 2007 : 4:48PM
I could see it being an obfuscation tag where the stuff inside of it is scrambled/de-scrambled via so it would render in a browser but be useless to a spider.
Bornyo
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Posted - Apr 10 2007 : 4:50PM
You're the expert but my guess is they format the address so it's clickable, opening a preaddressed email in whatever default mailer you use.

You have to be careful with those things- they can cause you to send emails thru your regular Outlook mailer instead of whatever anonymizing mailer you might normally use.

Drew Black
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Posted - Apr 10 2007 : 4:57PM
I hadn't thought of it launching a mailto: href. That would be really dumb unless of course you're just asking for every spammer in the world to know your address.
 
croy
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Posted - Apr 10 2007 : 10:27PM
I've seen things similar to what Bornyo said, but I never looked at the tags used.

I think if you use some Yahoo or Hotmail address, you don't worry about spammers too much. Just use it for a selected amount of time and send those that need follow-up to a regular e-mail. Then ignore it forever.

nietzsche
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Posted - Apr 10 2007 : 11:36PM
You can still munge the address.
croy
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Posted - Apr 11 2007 : 5:55AM
Some spam still gets through.
willywilly
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Posted - Apr 12 2007 : 2:04PM
www.spamgourmet.com is great. :)
AztecGold11
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Posted - Apr 12 2007 : 9:40PM
What's a spider?
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Posted - Apr 12 2007 : 10:18PM
It's a program that trawls web pages looking for email addresses.
croy
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Posted - Apr 12 2007 : 10:19PM
Crawls on webs, looking for specific things.
It is a bot.
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