Hiding EMail addressed on Web page

[BarrySumpter]

Hi all,

Absolute novice here...

I'd like to hide email address on my web page so the spammers can't scrape the page and retrieve my support email addresses.



Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter

[bruce]

I am no expert on this either.

I would use a email contact form rather than just posting the email address on the site using mailto.

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Hi all,

Absolute novice here...

I'd like to hide email address on my web page so the spammers can't scrape the page and retrieve my support email addresses.



Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter
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B.

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[BarrySumpter]

Thanks Bruce,
What a champ.

Definitely this one: [:D]
http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php
Where you need to type in the text as well.
Something like Support or Sales.

It would be a bit silly to encrypt the mailto: but leave the exact email address as the display text. LOL [:p]

I've written screen scrapers for web page text (getting weather for Outlook Control Panel [8)]) (not bot email trolling[:(!]).



Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter

[BarrySumpter]

Regretably, FrontPage 2003 translates it back into normal text when edited.

So it looks like I'll have to sort out some way to put it into a routine.

Oh well....

Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter

[Scott]

Check these links:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/computers/nwservices/mail/hidden-mailto.html

http://www.blazonry.com/javascript/js_hiding.php

http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php

[BarrySumpter]

http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=46

found this on the iis newsgroup


Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter

[Scott]

Barry,

This is from an email newsletter from Builder.com:

"Note: If you use a WYSIWYG Web page editor such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage, the program automatically converts reserved characters (&, <, >) that you enter in its design view into their escape sequence equivalents. This means that you can enter those characters by simply typing them on the keyboard. However, it also means that you can't enter escape sequences or tags in design view. Instead, you must use an insert special character command and select the character you want to enter, or switch to code view where you can type in the escape sequence manually without it being changed by the program."

[BarrySumpter]

OK

I'm getting very close here with the following document:

Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000
How to Send Form Results to a Database
and an E-mail Address

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;275251

porting the CDONTS to CDO using
http://kb.discountasp.net/article.aspx?id=10078

These show how we can send email and save data to a database.
I've imported my database to fpdb directory which MAY need to be moved to the _private to secure it.

I've also moved the email.asp to _private to protect my send to email address.

My thought is to have a form with a dropdown list of send to recipients like:
WebMaster, Sales, Support, Suggestions, etc....

And have the _private/email.asp actually look up the Sales (or Support, etc...) email address
from _private/mydb.mdb and send the email.











Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter

[rory]

I always use either an image to display my email addresses (ones I dont want spammed), or use an ASP contact form.

Rory

[brian]

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