spambot countermeasure help

[twonames]

I'm trying and failing to use the spambot countermeasure in the way I want.

I can use it ok to put an email address which will appear on the page as "a@bc.com" That works fine.

What I want is for the link on the page to appear as "Email Andy".

I've tried to embed the script in the <a> tag but it's not playing ball.

Any suggestions?

[AdamBrill]

Is this what you want?

<a href="mailto:a@bc.com">Email Andy</a>

[twonames]

YES! but I want to replace the "A@BC.COM" with the javascript which hides the address from spambots.

You can guess what's prompting me to try to do it I bet!

[AdamBrill]

Well, you could try this. Put this in the head:

function email(){
document.location="mailto:a@bc.com";
}

And the link would be like this:

<a href="#" onclick="email(); return false;">E-mail Andy</a>

I'm not sure if that would help or not, but it would be worth a try. I've never heard of that being a problem... Is it really that much of a problem for you??

[twonames]

Just thinking is a problem ath the mo!

Maybe I'm not being clear in what I'm trying to do or maybe your answer is exactly what I need but I'm too much of a javascript virgin to spot it.

I got this script...

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
// hide script
var sb_domain = "aol.com"
var sb_user = "joe8625"
var sb_recipient = sb_user + "@" + sb_domain
var sb_url = "mailto:" + sb_recipient
document.write(sb_recipient.link(sb_url));
// --></script>

and this puts an email link on the web page which appears as "joe8625@aol.com"

I want to do something a little different. I want "Email Andy" to appear on the page and the underlying link to be "mailto:squire@westminstermorris.org" (yes, I'm a morris dancer. Don't judge me too harshly)

The point of using the script is to stop the email addresses from being harvested.

Am I making sense yet?

Thanks

[AdamBrill]

Change the function form what I had to this:

function email(){
document.location="mailto:squire@"+"westminstermorris.org";
}

I can't really check, but I think that would take care of most of your problems. The "+" in there should make it so the programs won't find it...

[twonames]

HANG ON - Spotted it!

Explaining the problem to "She who would like to be obeyed" I could see what I needed.

Looking at the sample script, I set
sb_url to be "Mailto:" + sb_user + "@" + sb_domain

sb_recipient to be "Mail Andy" rather than sb_user + "@" + sb_url

I think it'll work.

If only I'd looked a little deeper.

Thanks for the help though.