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From: "Sarah Hughes" <>
Subject: Re: Email Links - Avoiding SPAM
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:59:42 -0700
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Liz -

There have been exhaustive and very informative discussions on this list
about how to encrypt or hide email addresses on your site. If you consult
the archives, you will find a goldmine of tips. Also a few ideas that don't
work and very good explanations of why they don't. And some discussion of
accessibility issues that arise if you choose to use a graphic or to use
javascript to hide your addy from the 'bots. There are new ideas out there
too, I'm sure. It'll be interesting to see the responses you get.

- Sally


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bathurst Family History Group" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 3:03 PM
Subject: Email Links - Avoiding SPAM


> It's nice to get feedback about a website but the problem with
> including email links on a site is that they get "harvested" and the
> email address receives more SPAM than legal email.
>
> For several years I have had several links on the website that I
> maintain for our local Family History Group and I have wondered why
> some of the email addresses receive SPAM and others don't.
>
> Now I think I have worked it out:
>
> <A HREF="mailto:?subject=XXXX Website">Email the
> Webmaster</A> doesn't receive spam
>
> but <A HREF="mailto:</A> does.
>
> So it seems that the first style is better for more than one reason:
> it avoids spam AND a message is easily recognised as coming from the
> website link because the subject of the message is provided by the
> link.
>
> Incidentally, you can enhance the first version to include cc and bcc
> to send copies and/or blind copies of the message also.
>
> I would like others' ideas about this.
>
>
>
> Liz
>
> Family History Group of Bathurst Inc.
> www.rootsweb.com/~nswbfhg
>


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