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pageoneresults
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RE: Convert mailto: address' s on your site - 8/5/2003 14:20:52
Hello Reflect, here is another that takes it one step further and allows you to specify CC:, BCC:, Subject and Body elements...
Advanced Email Link Generator with Anti-Spam Encoder
P.S. We are also experimenting with email address in .gif format with a transparent background. We can make the addresses look just like real text complete with all the pseudo classes to make them look and act like text links. Check out the email address at the bottom of this form...
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P.S.S. In addition to the above, we are trying another solution where the @ symbol has been turned into a .gif. You can see it in action here...
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After I took a beating when posting a topic here about removing email addresses altogether from websites, I decided to take all the feedback to heart and am implementing different techniques to obscure email address from harvesting bots. The javascript solutions won' t work for us as more than 5% of our visitors are surfing with javascript turned off.
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Richard Dudley
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RE: Convert mailto: address' s on your site - 8/5/2003 16:48:45
I believe most good SPAM-bots see through the unicode encoding. That' s what I' ve heard, anyway.
Another reason to cloak addresses somehow is that viri like Klez will search for .HTM pages on an infected machine, and use what it finds as to/from addresses. I had a problem on one website where 20 contact e-mail addresses were listed for the field sales reps, and someone with an infected machine viewed the page. The sales reps' mailboxes were overflowing with viruses sent to one another from one another. Since they trusted each other, they all opened the attachments, and being in the field weren' t up to date with their definitions. Took about 2 weeks to bring all the laptops back into HQ and clean them up.
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ajdevies
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RE: Convert mailto: address' s on your site - 8/5/2003 18:20:38
I substituted the unicode for all occurrences of the @ sign in my websites and significantly reduced the amount of spam I was receiving. It took about a month after making the change for the spam to die off, but it finally worked. The code for the @ sign is &# 64; (omit the space between the # and the 6 - I had to stick it in to keep this post from displaying it as the @ sign again.)
I also ' cloak' the email address that displays in the status bar when a user mouses over the email hyperlink:
<p>For technical issues regarding this website
<a onHover=" javascript:chgStatus(' Email the webmaster' )" style=" text-decoration: underline;" href=" mailto:webmaster@www.mywebsite.com?subject=Inquiry regarding yourwebsite" > Contact the Webmaster</a></p>
Sometimes I wonder if the spambots look for ' mailto:' and then gobble up what follows, changing unicode to @. I suppose if they don' t already they will very soon. They always seem to be one step ahead of us!
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circesdad
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RE: Convert mailto: address' s on your site - 8/5/2003 20:16:31
This appears to be a slick little utility. I tried it and generated a four line string of unicode. Can you suggest where I paste it into the FP html to substitute the code for the old email address? Relatively new to FrontPage and not as advanced as most of the folks here. Your help is greatly appreciated in advance.
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Reflect
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RE: Convert mailto: address' s on your site - 8/6/2003 7:53:54
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Can you suggest where I paste it into the FP html to substitute the code for the old email address?
Got your PM that you figured it out.
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I believe most good SPAM-bots see through the unicode encoding.
I see harvest bots in my logs but the address' s that I use just don' t get much in the way of spam, I don' t know what to say. I had my contact page " harvested" , looked at requests in my raw logs for last month, and had around 300 requests for that page by bot addresses/IPs.
Brian
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CapnCook
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RE: Convert mailto: address's on your site - 8/11/2003 16:25:38
You can also use a jsscript, such as:
<script type="text/javascript">
user ="yourname"
domain ="yourdomain"
subCon ="This will be the message subject"
document.write('<a href="mailto:' + user + '@' + domain +'?subject=' +subCon+' " ' +' >This will be the text appearing on the page</a>');
</script>
Place within the <body> section. 'yourname' and 'yourdomain' would be the text before and after the '@' sign normally.
Use of this script did reduce my spam intake.
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