Protecting Email links

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Mark K

I am creating a page for my companies website with contact
information for the people in this office. Is there a way
to keep the email links from being crawled by the spam
spyders? I herd you can put some code just b4 the email
link to stop the spiders from crawling it. If nt would
putting the addresses into a spreadsheet on the page keep
them from being crawled?

Had a very bad experiennce with our last website. Emails
were plainly posted and within a couple of months we were
receiving approx. 150 spams a day per address.

Thanks Mark
 
The best approach is to use a form with a server-side script (such as ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc.) that
would look up the email address in a database for the individual and then send the email without the
site visitor ever seeing the email address, unless the individual actually replies to the message.

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Thanks but that is WAY beyond my skills as a "webmaster".
Anything easier???

-----Original Message-----
The best approach is to use a form with a server-side
script (such as ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc.) that
would look up the email address in a database for the
individual and then send the email without the
site visitor ever seeing the email address, unless the
individual actually replies to the message.
 
No email links on the site. <smile>

There is a JavaScript method of hiding the email address, but if you ever need to do a search and
replace, you are out of luck.

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Java I can handle. I will do a web search and see if I can
find it.

THX

-----Original Message-----
No email links on the site. <smile>

There is a JavaScript method of hiding the email address,
but if you ever need to do a search and
 
Not Java, *JavaScript*. Two different animals.

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| Java I can handle. I will do a web search and see if I can
| find it.
|
| THX
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >No email links on the site. <smile>
| >
| >There is a JavaScript method of hiding the email address,
| but if you ever need to do a search and
| >replace, you are out of luck.
| >
| >--
| >==============================================
| >Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| >WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
| >
| >FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| >==============================================
| >To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage
| support see:
| >http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| >
| message
| >| >> Thanks but that is WAY beyond my skills as
| a "webmaster".
| >> Anything easier???
| >>
| >>
| >>>-----Original Message-----
| >>>The best approach is to use a form with a server-side
| >> script (such as ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc.) that
| >>>would look up the email address in a database for the
| >> individual and then send the email without the
| >>>site visitor ever seeing the email address, unless the
| >> individual actually replies to the message.
| >>>
| >>>--
| >>>==============================================
| >>>Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| >>>WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
| >>>
| >>>FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| >>>==============================================
| >>>To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage
| >> support see:
| >>>http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| >>>
| >> message
| >>>| >>>>I am creating a page for my companies website with
| >> contact
| >>>> information for the people in this office. Is there a
| >> way
| >>>> to keep the email links from being crawled by the spam
| >>>> spyders? I herd you can put some code just b4 the
| email
| >>>> link to stop the spiders from crawling it. If nt would
| >>>> putting the addresses into a spreadsheet on the page
| >> keep
| >>>> them from being crawled?
| >>>>
| >>>> Had a very bad experiennce with our last website.
| Emails
| >>>> were plainly posted and within a couple of months we
| >> were
| >>>> receiving approx. 150 spams a day per address.
| >>>>
| >>>> Thanks Mark
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>.
| >>>
| >
| >
| >.
| >
 
Mark K said:
I am creating a page for my companies website with contact
information for the people in this office. Is there a way
to keep the email links from being crawled by the spam
spyders? I herd you can put some code just b4 the email
link to stop the spiders from crawling it. If nt would
putting the addresses into a spreadsheet on the page keep
them from being crawled?

Had a very bad experiennce with our last website. Emails
were plainly posted and within a couple of months we were
receiving approx. 150 spams a day per address.

Thanks Mark

This might help ... http://accessfp.net/protect-your-email-address.htm You
can also reverse your addy in the code by using css.

Plus there is a FrontPage addon called FormArtist they have a Free version
of it.
http://www.quask.com/en/product_free.asp

Let me know if this helps.

Tina
Tip now out is: THUMBS.DB AND FRONTPAGE
http://frontpage-tips.com/ - FrontPage Tips
They are primarily for FrontPage 2003 but will be good
for earlier versions too.
 
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