FP2003 email question

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Pheasant Plucker®

Hi there,

I have setup a simple webpage with an animated .gif picture that contains
the hyperlink;

mailto:me@myaddress?subject=Website%20Enquiry

This works fine in that it opens the users default Mail program and inserts
the To: "email address" and the Subject: "Website Enquiry"

However the cursor is positioned in the beginning of the subject box instead
of being in the body of the email message.

Is there any way I can add a code or something to force the cursor into the
body of the email as the first character instead of flashing at the
beginning of the subject line?

I have tried adding "&body=" after the subject to no avail...

Also can spammers harvest my email address from the animated .gif or does
the email address have to be in plain text for it to be harvested?
 
You can't control the placement of the cursor in a desktop application from the web, and yes your
email address is available to all spam robots. To hid your email address you would need to use
server-side script and form handler to process the a form that user would complete online in their
browser.

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Thanks for the quick reply Thomas,

Strange that during my playing around with FP2003 this evening that during
one stretch the cursor was definitely in the body of the message instead of
the subject line.

I wonder why?

I wish I could reproduce it though...

Kind regards,
-=pp=-
 
Even using a script, hidden input type fields can still be detected by spam bots,
you would need to find a script that you can code the email into the script
itself, and not use hidden fields in the web page.

Two I know of

this one for Perl/CGI - Linux: www.ezscripting.co.uk or
http://www.form2email.co.uk/ (these two sites are run by the same people)

and this one for ASP/Windows: http://nuts4asp.com/scrips/pfeed/

and this one uses javascript to encode the email (I don't know how effective it
is): http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform/
 
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