FP2002: Best way to encrypt email address?

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Pete

What's the best way to encrypt my email address on my website so that spam
harvesters can't nab it?

Thanks for your thoughts.
 
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Tom J

I have email addresses on 3 different websites. The spam I get from those 3
email addresses is so few (averages less than 2 or 3 per day) that it's just
not a problem I worry about.

The email address to worry about is the one that the kids/wife is sharing
jokes/sayings emails with all their friends, and none of them cutting/hiding
email addresses. My wife had one of those that was generating up to 500 spams
a day before we took it down.

Tom J
 
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Cory C. Albrecht

Thanks heaps. That's exactly what I was after!
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Eventually the spam harvester daemons are going to catch on to that, if
they havent already. It is a very simple replace operation needed to
decode that character entity method, and thus a spam harvester could
still get the email address.

The best way is to use some form of server-side processing (JSP, PHP,
CGI, ASP, etc...). With that you have a normal form where the action
attribute points to a webpage, as normal, and not to a mailto: URL.
Becaus ethe form processing code in the JSP/PHP/ASP/whatever page is run
on the server, all they see is the HTML output, just like any normal
form processing.

Since this is a FronPage newsgroup, I assume that you are using ASP, so
I wouyld suggest looing at pages like

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/596
http://www.aspemail.com/

or using a search anging look for pages about ASP and CDO (Collaborative
Data Objects).
 
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