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From: Tina Norris Fields <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] encryption of email address
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:02:58 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011229202145.00a60110@pop3.norton.antivirus> <001001c1915d$c819bac0$2ad64cd8@alaudet>
Nice!
Tina
Al Audet wrote:
> Pat/Mark,
> I updated my JavaScript to encrypt an entire string instead of appending
> the "mailto:" to the front end of it. Here's the link if you want to save
> some time converting it character by character.
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cyrs/CharacterTest.htm
>
> Al
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Asher" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] encryption of email address
>
> > At 05:58 PM 12/29/2001, Mark R. Miller wrote:
> > >A little over a month ago or so there was some discussion of
> > >"encrypting" email using the ascii character set. I thought this was a
> > >great idea as I've been plagued by spam mail. I revised my site on
> > >November 14th and encrypted my email address as follows:
> >
> >mailto:mmiller@ebu

> 8;on.com"
> > >
> > >Yesterday I received the following email from someone selling email
> > >encryption software:
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > You encrypted the A HREF mailto: tag, but then put your email addy in
> plain
> > text for harvesting <G>
> >
> > <.A
> >
> HREF="mailto:mmiller@ebu
> ;lon.com"><.FONT
> > SIZE="-1"
> >
> FACE="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><./FONT><
> /A>
> >
> > Change ** to *Mark Miller* or whatever *name* you want
> to
> > use.
> >
> > Also, Elsi suggested the "mailto:" portion should be ASCII encrypted.
> >
> >
> > Pat
> >
> >
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