Blog Software: Slowing Spam By Email

Writing by Brick Marketing on Tuesday, 22 of January , 2008 at 1:58 am

Most blog software platforms have one deficiency in common, the inability to display an email link while hiding your email address.  There are a lot of email robots just touring around web sites collecting email addresses. The email addresses are collected into data bases and used to send out spam mail.

Some bloggers try to side step this by writing their email in long hand - you may have seen it - webmaster (at) domain-name (dot) com. This is very effective at stopping the email robot collectors, it can also deter readers from using your email service. We seem to live in a click society now - if I cannot click I won’t bother.

There are many services available that will enable  you to offer the one click email link while hiding your email address. These still rely on a piece of Java code which needs to be copied and pasted into a text box (for WordPress users). The code works by breaking the email address up into pieces that cannot be read by the mail bot. One such as service is provided by BlogFlux  - they are one of many. You simply type in your email address and they will provide you with the Java Script to place on your page.

They are effective at slowing down the incidence of email spam. Unfortunately you will never totally prevent mail bots and email spam - but the, blog software can only do so much  - a good email filter should handle the rest.

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