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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
 
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
 
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
 
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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