protecting email address

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Thomas A. Rowe

No, if you can see it in your page or by viewing the source of the page in a browser, then the spam
harvesting robot can also see it.

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Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

while I don't have any concrete proof that the spam bots can't get an email
address encoded this way, I haven't gotten a single piece of spam to an
email address placed on the web via this method:

http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform/

FWIW I'd just paste their output onto the code of a blank page, name the
page something to remind you what the email address is and then put it into
the pages you want it on via the FrontPage include content component;
insert/ web component/ include content/ page; browse to the page.
by doing this you'll make it easier on yourself when you need to change the
email addresses, etc.

HTH

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Richard Lewis Haggard

Here's what I do - any email addresses on my web site are actually bitmaps,
not text. From the user's perspective, it's text. When the user clicks on
it, I've hooked the click event up so that it triggers an email with the
appropriate address. I do not, of course, know that this will foil the
address harvesters, but I can say that I have at least one email address
that is published in this fashion that has never received a single spam
email.
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Ivor Jones

Richard Lewis Haggard said:
Here's what I do - any email addresses on my web site are actually
bitmaps, not text. From the user's perspective, it's text. When the user
clicks on it, I've hooked the click event up so that it triggers an
email with the appropriate address. I do not, of course, know that this
will foil the address harvesters, but I can say that I have at least one
email address that is published in this fashion that has never received
a single spam email.
Click to expand...

There's only one place an email address exists on my site and that's in
the code for the mail form. There's no way to hide that in FP and have it
work, so I use a free address from www.despammed.com and forward mail from
the site to there. It then gets forwarded by them to my "real" address. If
I ever get spam from it (and I have yet to do so, despammed have excellent
filters..!) then all I'd need to do is pick a new address from them to
use.

Ivor
 
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