<a href="mailto:enquires@xyz.co.uk">enquires@xyz</a> OR not?

[cojak]

Calling all Web experts, if I insert the following mailto mark-up into my Web site contact page:

<p>Email: <a href="mailto:enquires@xyz.co.uk">enquires@xyz.co.u k</a></p>

would this be an invitation to a serious spamming?

What alternatives would the esteemed CUK congregation recommend? I'm using the 1and1 Linux hosting.

Yes.

Get yerself a contact form instead.

[cojak]

Eh? Legally (Ltd) should have company registered address, VAT etc - email address is not in that list I believe?

WHS - you DO NOT need your email on your site. Just registered office details (I know 'cos I checked the legislation when it changed...).

[cojak]

http://www.out-law.com/page-7594



HTH

Rubbish...

[Platypus]

Check out FormMail.pl

When I was looking to create a "contact us" form on a website, this mechanism looked to be the most widespread, easy to configure and well-tested.

And after implementing it, the amount of Spam received started to wane over time.

http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

[AtW]

Rubbish...

I thought so too, maybe a link to actual legislation is in order...

[cojak]

I used thesitewizard to create mine.

Works a treat...

[cojak]

I thought so too, maybe a link to actual legislation is in order...

I'm trying to find to find the details Dear. I actually waded through the legalese to get to the horse-mouth, as it were...

[SorenLorensen]

You can create a contact form in Google Docs too, quite easy to use.

[thunderlizard]

Yes, I'd avoid mailto: . Never liked it anyway, but now that lots of people use webmail and other things, opening the default mail client is probably not what most people want, and will even throw up an error a lot of the time. Put the email address in plain text and/or have a "send us a message" webform.

[AtW]

I'm trying to find to find the details Dear. I actually waded through the legalese to get to the horse-mouth, as it were...

It's the FAqqer's job surely?