Protecting email addresses

[jon morgan]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how I can protect an email address on a form in Frontpage
from being harvested by spiders/bots etc.

It seems very odd that MS don't make it simple to encrpyt or otherwise
protect your address from these pests.

I don't have any Javascript/HTML knowledge at all - just a user of Frontpage
2002.

Thanks for any help

Jon

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Jon,

Take a look at J-Bots Spam Stopper

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[jon morgan]

Thanks Mike

Spam Stopper seems to be Javascript based. From hunting around the net I've
read that email miners can still read addresses that have been encoded using
this technique.

Can anyone comment on how effective Spam Stopper is or are there any easy to
use more effective alternatives ?

Regards

Jon

 

[Mike Mueller]

Jon,
There is no 1 way that works for all situations. There
are some javascript methods of breaking up o encoding the
email address but not all people have js enabled. The
method I use which works on IIS hosts is to use a custom ASP
page utilizing CDO as the form handler. The custom asp page
would be able to store in a DB if so desired.

Mike


jon morgan wrote:
: Hello,
:
: Can anyone tell me how I can protect an email address on
: a form in Frontpage from being harvested by spiders/bots
: etc.
:
: It seems very odd that MS don't make it simple to encrpyt
: or otherwise protect your address from these pests.
:
: I don't have any Javascript/HTML knowledge at all - just
: a user of Frontpage 2002.
:
: Thanks for any help
:
: Jon

 

[jon morgan]

Thanks Mike,

How would I use your method in FrontPage ?

An example would be very helpful.

Regards

Jon

 

[Mike Mueller]

It is not a page that FP can create, it would have to be
custom. What OS hosts your site? CDONTS will only work on
NT4 or 2000 systems, you would use CDOSYS on 2000 or 2003
Servers.

CDONTS:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ml/_denali_newmail_object_cdonts_library_.asp
CDOSYS:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ing_smtp_mail_by_port_25_using_cdosys_vbs.asp

I can do CDONTS rather quickly. Haven't use CDOSYS yet, so
it would take some more time

Mike


: Thanks Mike,
:
: How would I use your method in FrontPage ?
:
: An example would be very helpful.
:
: Regards
:
: Jon
:
:
message
: : > Jon,
: > There is no 1 way that works for all situations.
There
: > are some javascript methods of breaking up o encoding
the
: > email address but not all people have js enabled. The
: > method I use which works on IIS hosts is to use a custom
ASP
: > page utilizing CDO as the form handler. The custom asp
page
: > would be able to store in a DB if so desired.
: >
: > Mike
: >
: >
: > jon morgan wrote:
: > : Hello,
: > :
: > : Can anyone tell me how I can protect an email address
on
: > : a form in Frontpage from being harvested by
spiders/bots
: > : etc.
: > :
: > : It seems very odd that MS don't make it simple to
encrpyt
: > : or otherwise protect your address from these pests.
: > :
: > : I don't have any Javascript/HTML knowledge at all -
just
: > : a user of Frontpage 2002.
: > :
: > : Thanks for any help
: > :
: > : Jon
: >
: >
:
:

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Jon,

We tested this with several mining programs and have not found one that will detect it.