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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:42:47+00:00

I have been looking at some methods for spamproof email methods here . I’d

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I have been looking at some methods for spamproof email methods here. I’d like to propose a more simple approach: Since I need a couple of different email addresses I considered just using a selectbox with JS or serverside redirect, as per examples on here.
Because google doesn’t spider forms (dixit Matt Cutts), and spam-harvester script don’t either (I think????) this would make sense to do.

I would love to be able to do this without using a script. So why not use one form per email?

<form action="mailto:test@domain.tld" method="get">
<input type="submit" value="test@domain.tld"/>
</form>

It seems the button text can be copied but not pasted, so that’s a disadvantage.

Is this approach any good? or any other recommendations?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Because:

    1. The email address is still in the page, and thus easily harvestable
    2. mailto: URIs as form actions often fail

    The reason server side form handlers stop email addresses being harvested is because the email address is not exposed to the user.

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