# Auto-Compromising bots and emails

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-compromising-bots-and-emails/284994>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 25, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-compromising-bots-and-emails/284994 "2009-03-25T21:43:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![bortiquai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@bortiquai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bortiquai)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-compromising-bots-and-emails/284994/1 "2009-03-25T21:43:42Z")

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How safe is it to put links to email addresses in textFields of Flash Docs?

For example, if you have this:

txtEmail.htmlTetxt = '\<a href=‘[mailto:my@address.com](mailto:my@address.com)’\>EMAIL ME!\</a\>

How susceptible is this to spammers and bots?