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Erik Skamser

I'm using FrontPage 2003.

I've put a picture of an e-mail hyperlink on my web page so that spammers can't harvest my e-mail address. So far, so good. But when I try to modify the hyperlink properties for that link, I want to put "%40" in place of the "@" sign and "%2e" in place of the dot. E-mail programs should be able to read this just fine, and start a new message addressed properly to me.

But when I enter mailto:erik%40eskamser%2ecom and close the dialog, FrontPage insists on changing the %40 back to an @ and the %2e back to a dot. So I haven't disguised my e-mail address in my page at all.

Is there some way I can get FrontPage to leave my mailto data alone?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me.

Erik
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

First, the email application would see that as a invalid email address, try
paste it in to your email application.

It is the browser that convert the %40 and %2e to the actual characters that
allows a email application to read email address as valid.

Insert a valid email address, then switch to Code View and change the email
address to what you want.

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I'm using FrontPage 2003.

I've put a picture of an e-mail hyperlink on my web page so that spammers
can't harvest my e-mail address. So far, so good. But when I try to modify
the hyperlink properties for that link, I want to put "%40" in place of the
"@" sign and "%2e" in place of the dot. E-mail programs should be able to
read this just fine, and start a new message addressed properly to me.

But when I enter mailto:erik%40eskamser%2ecom and close the dialog,
FrontPage insists on changing the %40 back to an @ and the %2e back to a
dot. So I haven't disguised my e-mail address in my page at all.

Is there some way I can get FrontPage to leave my mailto data alone?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me.

Erik
 
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MD WebsUnlimited.com

HI Erik,

You may wish to take a look at Spam Stopper at http://www.websunlimited.com/order/Product/SpamStopper/spam_stopper_help_dir.htm
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I'm using FrontPage 2003.

I've put a picture of an e-mail hyperlink on my web page so that spammers can't harvest my e-mail address. So far, so good. But when I try to modify the hyperlink properties for that link, I want to put "%40" in place of the "@" sign and "%2e" in place of the dot. E-mail programs should be able to read this just fine, and start a new message addressed properly to me.

But when I enter mailto:erik%40eskamser%2ecom and close the dialog, FrontPage insists on changing the %40 back to an @ and the %2e back to a dot. So I haven't disguised my e-mail address in my page at all.

Is there some way I can get FrontPage to leave my mailto data alone?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me.

Erik
 
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Andre Rodziewicz

You could also display (hide) an email address in your source code
using JavaScript or change your email address into ASCI characters or
even use a combination of both. JavaScript displays correctly in
browsers as long as users have JavaScript enabled. The webstats on my
website tell me that 0.1% of users browsers don't read JavaScript.
Email harvesters get your email address from the source code of your
page. There are on-line converters at
http://zamok.crans.org/~raffo/antispam/aem/ and
http://www.joemaller.com/js-mailer.shtml has a converter and useful
anti-spam information.

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