This page contains advice for developers and maintainers of ringing websites such as Guild sites. It describes how to encode email links to protect them from spammers. An automatic encoding tool is also provided. Email contact links are an invaluable part of any web page. However, they are also vulnerable to a particular type of web robot known as the spam harvester or spambot. A spam harvester can read through the pages in your site and extract email addresses which are then added to bulk...
