Ask HN: What is the current wisdom on displaying e-mail addresses?

Posted by kmfrk on Saturday June 26, 2010 @08:26AM
from the ask-hn dept.

With crawlers and your daily dose of malignant software, what is the safest and most convenient way of displaying an e-mail address today?

John Gruber seems to use a piece of JS that doesn't work in Opera from my experiences, and others split up their addresses or replace certain characters. Applying this latter strategy has reached a point where I am not sure that non-intermediate internet users will get it and won't send me an e-mail altogether.

Is "mailto:" a relic of the past?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the current wisdom on displaying e-mail a... by spooneybarger on Saturday June 26, 2010 @09:28AM (#1463643)

Gmail.

I use gmail and have my address all over the web in easily crawlable text and get less than 10 spam emails a year ending up in my inbox.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the current wisdom on displaying e-mail a... by donohoe on Saturday June 26, 2010 @08:31AM (#1463586)

I'm not sure if this is what Gruber uses, but it seems to do a good jon (supposedly):

http://hivelogic.com/enkoder

I'm sure you could do your own simper but unique variation.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the current wisdom on displaying e-mail a... by danielrm26 on Saturday June 26, 2010 @04:44PM (#1464260)

Obfuscation of email addresses is, and has been, obsolete for some time in my opinion. My address on a domain thats been active since 99' is everywhere in it's plain form, and I get so little spam that it's a surprise when I do.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the current wisdom on displaying e-mail a... by nyef on Saturday June 26, 2010 @09:42AM (#1463658)

On all my websites I just use a contact form that sends me an email directly so my email address is never displayed.

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