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assassin17

4172 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2008 :  1:04:47 PM
Do you get a lot of unsolicited e-mail sent to addresses listed on your web pages?

By breaking your email address into portions, you can prevent a large amount of email spammers from grabbing it.

This JAVASCRIPT code creates a very nice email link on your web pages and defeats MANY of the spambots. Just change myemailname and mydomainname to match the portions of your email address;


<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
<!--
var part1 = "myemailname";
var part2 = "mydomain.com?subject=Contact Inquiry";
var part3 = "Click here to e-mail";
document.write('<A href="mai' + 'lto:' + part1 + '@' + part2 + '">');
document.write(part3 + '<\/A>');
// -->
</SCRIPT>


Copy and paste that code into your pages. You will soon begin to see a dramatic reduction in spam e-mails. (It won't cut down the people who already bought a list with your email on it, so you won't see everything eliminated right away)

If you insist upon revealing your actual e-mail address on web pages, the best way to eliminate Spambots from scanning it is to make a JPG or GIF graphic of your email address, instead of typing it. Spam-bots read the source text of a page and images must be read by human eyes.

Combining these techniques will result in a dramatic reduction of Spam e-mail caused from computer programs that scan past your web site pages.
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hpmfinancial

1555 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2008 :  1:38:12 PM
Good idea Greg!
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darkstar

18309 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2008 :  2:45:57 PM
Great tip!
assassin17

4172 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2008 :  3:03:49 PM
So sorry... I had to remove a couple of parts that were specific to my web site pages. The code above should now be correct!
ritabradley01

3228 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2008 :  3:08:11 PM
Great tip for the training section. I bet you've got a bunch more too!
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CoralSnake

10883 Posts

Posted - 08/05/2008 :  4:41:19 PM
cool.
Nice tip.
Thanks.
MisterVA

6634 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2008 :  06:32:28 AM
Another good idea is to not use your name in your website or email if it is 'Hormel'.
genealle

1075 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2008 :  06:47:10 AM
quote:
Originally posted by assassin17

Do you get a lot of unsolicited e-mail sent to addresses listed on your web pages?

By breaking your email address into portions, you can prevent a large amount of email spammers from grabbing it.

This JAVASCRIPT code creates a very nice email link on your web pages and defeats MANY of the spambots. Just change myemailname and mydomainname to match the portions of your email address;


<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
<!--
var part1 = "myemailname";
var part2 = "mydomain.com?subject=Contact Inquiry";
var part3 = "Click here to e-mail";
document.write('<A href="mai' + 'lto:' + part1 + '@' + part2 + '">');
document.write(part3 + '<\/A>');
// -->
</SCRIPT>


Copy and paste that code into your pages. You will soon begin to see a dramatic reduction in spam e-mails. (It won't cut down the people who already bought a list with your email on it, so you won't see everything eliminated right away)

If you insist upon revealing your actual e-mail address on web pages, the best way to eliminate Spambots from scanning it is to make a JPG or GIF graphic of your email address, instead of typing it. Spam-bots read the source text of a page and images must be read by human eyes.

Combining these techniques will result in a dramatic reduction of Spam e-mail caused from computer programs that scan past your web site pages.




Nice ideas!

I wanted to add that I personally prefer a form when I submit a message to a web site. The problem is when using <mailto>, it starts Outlook or whatever your default E-mail editor is. I generally send non-business messages via one of 3 Yahoo accounts I use, for various levels of contact. Again, this is a personal preference (speaking as a message submitter) that a form pops up on a click and I can fill in the blanks.

It's a bit more difficult to implement (for me at least) but on occasion I've made it work. Frontpage's mail form feature sux and FP extensions break easily, but there are some form building programs out there and sites that generate free PHP ocde.
assassin17

4172 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2008 :  11:12:42 AM
You can easily add your Yahoo email account to Outlook or your email program. The settings are available on your Yahoo email page.

After that, when Outlook pops open, you can select whichever account you want to send from via the ACCOUNTS button at the top.
genealle

1075 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2008 :  8:57:52 PM
quote:
Originally posted by assassin17

You can easily add your Yahoo email account to Outlook or your email program. The settings are available on your Yahoo email page.

After that, when Outlook pops open, you can select whichever account you want to send from via the ACCOUNTS button at the top.



You can only have full mail access with Gmail accounts.

Yahoo will retrieve from most other Email acounts, but will not allow you use Outlook to post from from the Yahoo SMTP/POP3 server unless you purchase a premium service.

I use Outlook for my Gmail(Ebay) biz accounts, but I'm surprised at the current lack of features.


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assassin17

4172 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2008 :  9:29:36 PM
Hmmm, I have a corporate account with Yahoo. Maybe that's why I can do it.
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darkstar

18309 Posts

Posted - 08/18/2008 :  05:22:47 AM
Bump for good schtuff!
assassin17

4172 Posts

Posted - 08/27/2008 :  4:35:05 PM
Back to the point of this post: The HTML code splits your email address into pieces, which means that the computer spam-bots who run around checking for email addresses do not recognize it. Thus, you will be spammed by less of the scammers who scour the internet in this manner.

I have not gotten spammed once since I did this on my site. Prior to that, I got multiple copies of email every single day sent to addresses which I only had used on the web site, therefore I knew that is exactly where they came from... spam-bots.

This technique DOES work and you should notice it working almost immediately.
Chris Clark

5966 Posts

Posted - 08/27/2008 :  8:13:37 PM
Here's another option for you. If you don't want to use javascript, you can break your e-mail address down into ASCII number code.

For instance, if your e-mail is bob@home.com, your ASCII number code would be as follows:

& #98; & #111; & #98; & #64; & #104; & #111; & #109; & #101; & #46; & #99; & #111; & #109;

(just take out all of the spaces - I had to include them to get the code to show properly on this forum)

If you input that code into the HTML of your webpage, the source code will show those symbols and numbers, but the actual letters, bob@home.com, would show up on the actual HTML page.

To see all the number codes, go here: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
U812

390 Posts

Posted - 09/06/2008 :  08:26:28 AM
Great info guys!

Thanks for the tips.
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