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From: Pat Asher <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] e-mail addresses on pages
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:21:40 -0500
In-Reply-To: <00cc01c19eb1$2d26c4c0$eee1ce42@isys.ca>


At 12:13 PM 1/16/2002, Ann \(Jobe\) Brown wrote:
>Just getting ready to move my researcher's pages over to my new rootsweb
>pages. Presently, I have the addresses listed so you can click on a
>letter opens up addressed to the person. I've heard that this is suppose
>to be easy for spammers to get their address.
>
>Does anyone have any other suggestions on how to list the addresses so
>that they are 'less likely' to be harvestable.

Hi Ann,

We had an extensive discussion on this subject a few weeks ago which you
can review by viewing the archives at
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freepages-help

The consensus was that ASCII encryption was presently adequate protection
against harvesting by spammers. One of the other list members modified a
javascript that will encrypt the "mailto" portion of an email address
automatically:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cyrs/CharacterTest.htm


Pat

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