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From: Ronald D Bauerle <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Re: Email Links - Avoiding SPAM
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:45:12 -0700


On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:59:42 -0700 "Sarah Hughes"
<> writes:
> 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.

But none of them are as convenient as this one, if it's legit...

>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

I think the Worldconnect approach overdoes it sometimes - it's often hard
to tell "r" from "n", etc. if the dots they add land in the wrong place
:^(

>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.

Here's what a friend had to say in response to my forwarding of the
original post to him:

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> All of my inclusions of my e-mail addy on my pages are of the
> Subject= variety, and maybe this explains why I don't get that
> much spam, unless my ISP is blocking it?

It might help. The address harvesters might be programmed to drop those
with any request like that, thinking they're probably requests to an
automated system when people want more info on a product or are sending
in a help request.
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I've heard though that some browsers don't support "Subject=xxx";
is this true?

Ron

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