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Charville
05-20-2003, 01:08 AM
I don't want to post my email address on the website....finding out it's a no no. Can anyone help me?

Much appreciated...

p.s. I am just new at web design so speak s-l-o-w-l-y...
2 peachy
05-20-2003, 01:10 AM
I am not sure what you are saying.... i have never posted my email on a web site....
are you being asked to do so by where you have your shell ?
Nevermore
05-20-2003, 01:14 AM
Do es your server support PHP or Perl? If so, you could send email from the server to you without ever giving away your email address. Otherwise, I would recommend tagging the address. Check out the 'spam' section of this page (http://www.evernet.co.uk/articles/secure.php) for more information.
Gollum
05-20-2003, 01:57 AM
What I always do is go to hotmail or whatever your favourite free e-mail server is and create a new e-mail address like "spam_me_as_much_as_you_like@hotmail.com"

then you can splash this e-mail address around as much as you like without the danger of any of your 'real' e-mail addresses being compromised.
web-eagle
05-20-2003, 03:53 AM
If you’re concerned about a spider finding your e-mail to put into a spammers’ database, I learned an interesting method of “hiding” it from most of them. It requires javascript, so it won’t work on the 10% of browsers who have JS disabled. But it’s a very simple elementary sort of defense.

<script language=javascript>
<!--
var atsign="@";
var etext="Send Me Email";
var ename="yourname";
var ehost="yourhost.com";
document.write("<a href="+"mail"+"to:"+ename+atsign+ehost+">"+etext+"</a>");
//-->
</script>

Another idea we’re just now experimenting with is a sort of moving target. If you own the site, and can create/delete your own POP3 accounts, you can set up a new account periodically, put only that onto the site, and have it forwarded to your real address. That way, if spammers do find something on your site, it won’t be valid after your next account change. People can still send e-mail from the site, because the address is always current, but anything going into a spider’s list will be out of date very shortly.

This week it might be ajjkreuc@website.com. Next week it’ll be dflgkjl@website.com.

As I said, this is just experimental for us right now, but it seems to be working. If it looks like something we want to keep doing, I’ll figure out some sort of SS script to make it automatic.

Best of luck to you
crs
05-20-2003, 04:04 AM
Would you like something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>My title</title>
<script>
<!--
var mymail = "mai" + "lto:" + "myema" + "il@mydom" + "ain.com";
-->
</script>
</head>

<body>
<div onClick="window.location = mymail">Mail me...</div>
</body>
</html>
Fang
05-20-2003, 05:49 AM
Encoding your address works well, this site (http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php) does it for you.
Charville
05-20-2003, 12:07 PM
Just got in and found all the great responses to my email question. This is great. Thanks to all that responded! Enjoy.
ccoder
05-20-2003, 05:18 PM
You could even take things a step further and employ both the JavaScript that web-eagle posted and the encoding that Fang suggested. Use encoded strings for ename and ehost.

I did that in early 2002 when we moved to a new domain and it took about 14-15 months before I got a single spam. I'm guessing that they got my addy when I visited/purchased from some site.
web-eagle
05-20-2003, 05:39 PM
Just visited Fang’s recommended site and I like it. (Wish I’d thought of it!)
That page now bookmarked, thankyouverymuch!!!
pyro
05-20-2003, 05:49 PM
Just remember that if you encode your email address with javascript, it will fail for the 10% who do not have javascript enabled. I personally would just swap out the @ (&amp;#064;) and the . (&amp;#046;) for an email something like this: <a href="you&amp;#064;your&amp;#046;com">you&amp;#064;your&amp;#046;com</a>