Mailto link spam protection

Question

I developed a wordpress themes ages ago and had this script going in a script.js file:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.spampro').each(function() {
    var email = $(this).find('.n').text() + "@" + $(this).find('.e1').text() + "." + $(this).find('.e2').text();
    $(this).html("<a href=\"mailto:" + email + "\">" + email + "</a>");
  });
});
});
});

Now years after when I wanted to use it again I cant recall how I used to get my mailto/email addresses protected. I have a small memory of when I wrote: myemail@adress.com it was encoded in the page source.

I searched for the .spampro without any success. Perhaps will any of you be familiar of how I used it since i'm not a code wizard.

Answer 1

That script appears to be looking for the following HTML structure, and replacing it with a link tag:

 $('.spampro').each(function() { var email = $(this).find('.n').text() + "@" + $(this).find('.e1').text() + "." + $(this).find('.e2').text(); $(this).html("<a href=\\"mailto:" + email + "\\">" + email + "</a>"); }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="spampro"> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="e1">example</span> <span class="e2">com</span> </div> 

I very much doubt this technique would provide any protection at all from email harvesters these days -- all they'd need to do is allow your page to finish running the above script before scraping.