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dpf -> hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 11:02:49)

I ran accross this today and thought it was cool:

<script language=javascript>
<!--
var contact = "Send an eMail"
var email = "icontact"
var emailHost = "emergentmarketing.com"
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + email + "@" + emailHost + " class=topnav "+ ">" + contact + "</a>")
//-->
</script>



Larry M. -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 11:38:51)

Dan,

Mind completing the script for a hypothetical email address so I can get a better grasp? Use, for instance, DPF@BellSouth.net.

Thanks as usual,



dpf -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 11:47:35)

sure thing, Larry.

quote:

<script language=javascript>
<!--
var contact = "Send an eMail" // this is what will show on the page as it is between the <a> and </a> in the document.write
var email = "DPF" //this goes into the "email" piece of document.write - note: the + signs are for concatenating (joining) the string pieces)
var emailHost = "BellSouth.net"
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + email + "@" + emailHost + " class=topnav "+ ">" + contact + "</a>")
//-->
</script>


here is how it works: the server sends the html to the browser with this included:
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + email + "@" + emailHost + " class=topnav "+ ">" + contact + "</a>")
//--> document.write is executed client-side by the javascript and produces this (which you are familiar with)
<a href="mailto:DPF@BellSouth.net">Send an Email</a>

however, this is written AFTER it is received by the browser - by the client side javascript. the actual html sent by the browser - which the trawler sees and you see via View/Source contains the document.write!! make sense?



bobby -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 11:50:24)

Biggest downside is javascript is required... I use this on our work website and it does a great job of keeping the SPAM down.

I also use two forms for sending specific requests or questions, using ASP to process it and send it to us using CDOSYS

[;)]



Donkey -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 12:48:49)

A very simillar script was posted in OF about 18 months ago, I think it was posted by Shirley or Swirl.
<!-- Begin
a="dpf";
b="bellsouth.net";
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:'+a+'@'+b+'\">');
document.write(a+'@'+b+'<\/a>');
// End -->


I have used it since then but in a recent thread Here
tinaalice gives another method which is more accessible, and there is always the reverse text method from Gorilla(s) also mentioned in that thread.



bobby -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 13:00:58)

I like the reverse text... just not easy to use in a link [:D]



jaybee -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 13:08:52)

quote:

I like the reverse text


Don't use it. Tried it with Lynx and it just comes out backwards.



rose12 -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/22/2005 19:31:17)

Thanks "dpf"



Newbie FrontPage -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/25/2005 0:20:06)

I use webmaster@ and I do not get spam from that site. It seems that webmaster@........, does not seem to be a valid email address to many.
What about substituting the @ with the HTML Hex code : u ,? This suppose to work fine as well even though i have not tried it.
rolf



Spooky -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/28/2005 13:22:47)

You can also score a new addin from www.jimcoaddins.com called "Spam Spoiler" which integrates with Frontpage to do a similar thing.



d a v e -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/28/2005 13:44:15)

i've been using the unicode encoded email address and text here http://members.tiscali.fi/dave_pirjo/test-area/spamtest.htm since feb 1st 2005 and haven't had a sausage yet... maybe still being spidered?

(it's from here http://www.pinnacledisplays.com/unicode-converter.htm)



jaybee -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/28/2005 14:18:48)

Hey that's good! So good there's nothing there! Not a wonder the spiders can't see it. [:D]



rdouglass -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/28/2005 14:42:55)

quote:

So good there's nothing there!


Get rid of the paren at the end of the URL. [;)]



jaybee -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/28/2005 14:51:47)

Oh whoops! [:D]



d a v e -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (2/28/2005 15:13:23)

bless - she's only a moderator, what can you expect :)



Peppergal -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (3/1/2005 23:08:26)

Thanks Spooky!! I have a couple JimcoAddins, though one of them makes FP crash (the meta generator...only if I try to apply globally to all pages...if I do it page by page, which sorta defeats the purpose of the add in, it doesn't crash)

Up till now I have used the E-Cloaker that Seventh posted ages and ages ago, which works nice, but it would be so nice to have something within FP to do it.

I also used another email cloaker - it's nice cause you can have multiple email addresses and it will let you add a specific subject line and even body text to it:

http://www.willmaster.com/possibilities/demo/aelgwase.html

I saved it to my desktop....I've used both programs with success...no email address that I've cloaked have gotten spammed...



pacific22 -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (6/30/2005 17:24:17)

I tried out the JIMCO spam spoiler and was quite disappointed with it. First, when installing, there was no Help to tell you what to do, or where it was located.

But the main problem, once I did find it and try it out, was that on the new uploaded page, I did a "View source" using notepad, and the email address was there, NOT hidden at all from the robots. IT was even twice!!!
That's exactly the opposite to what it's supposed to do.

I wrote to JIMCO to tell them I think it's a piece of crap.



Tailslide -> RE: hiding email address from email harvesters (6/30/2005 17:27:44)

I use this obsu.. obfus... oh hell I can't spell it here it is: http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/obfuscate_email.asp



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