{"title":"Form field spammers","html":"

I didn't want to put my email address on the site, purely for spam reasons. I thought I could avoid spam by putting a contact form on the site instead. Now, I get more spam than I used to from comment spam bots using my contact form!

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There is no escape, and I will have to accept this as a part of my destiny...

","description":"","slug":"form-field-spammers","display":1,"category":3,"posted_at":1143031662000,"comments":[{"title":"pitmandan@gmail.com","author":"Dan Pitman","avatar":"//www.gravatar.com/avatar/6316f373dbe251a2aaf675d6793b69c3","date":"2006-03-22T16:39:35.000Z","body":"Hey Jesse,
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\r\nWhen I was doing work on the Thrivecanada website, they asked me about reducing spam (as they need to have their email addresses on the site).
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\r\nI found that if you use ascii code in place of the @ symbol, it seems to trick the spambots searching for addresses, but still works in a "mailto" link.
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\r\nie: <a href="mailto:danpitman@hotmail.com"> "},{"title":"jesse@thefutureoftheweb.com","author":"Jesse Skinner","avatar":"//www.gravatar.com/avatar/eb22390416c3b62025dc9ad2120a8ade","date":"2006-03-22T17:54:54.000Z","body":"That's great, Dan. Though I wonder how long before they adapt the bots to factor this in...
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\r\nIt's become painfully impossible to distinguish between bots and humans.. besides using a CAPTCHA, I suppose. I think I'd rather deal with spam myself rather than put the work on my visitors. For now, anyway. Ask me in a few months..."},{"title":"mark@enews.org","author":"espd","avatar":"//www.gravatar.com/avatar/e54d7108d97e213e77e97e825bf5d08c","date":"2006-03-24T21:43:20.000Z","body":"Use the Enkoder. It works great. Encodes an email address so bots can't recognize it.
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\r\nhttp://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform"}]}