Cloaking Email Address

[Steevo]

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email addresses?
Many thanks

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Steevo

[Leif K-Brooks]

Steevo wrote:

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email addresses?

On the server side as part of a mailing list? On the webmaster side
before you upload a page containing email addresses? On the
newsreader/emailer side before you send a message? We're not psychic,
you know.

[Steevo]

"Leif K-Brooks" <eu*****@ecritt ers.biz> wrote in message
news:fq******** ***********@mon ger.newsread.co m...

Steevo wrote:

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email addresses?

On the server side as part of a mailing list? On the webmaster side
before you upload a page containing email addresses? On the
newsreader/emailer side before you send a message? We're not psychic,
you know.

Sorry, didn't realise there were so many areas you could cloak email
addresses! I was referring to cloaking emails on webpages instead of having
a mailto: link.
Many thanks

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Steevo

[David Ross]

Steevo wrote:

"Leif K-Brooks" <eu*****@ecritt ers.biz> wrote in message
news:fq******** ***********@mon ger.newsread.co m...

Steevo wrote:

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email addresses?

On the server side as part of a mailing list? On the webmaster side
before you upload a page containing email addresses? On the
newsreader/emailer side before you send a message? We're not psychic,
you know.

Sorry, didn't realise there were so many areas you could cloak email
addresses! I was referring to cloaking emails on webpages instead of having
a mailto: link.

I use a mailto: link. However, the visible "text" for that link --
visibly showing my E-mail address -- is actually a GIF image. My
ISP has a relatively good spam filter on their mail server; thus,
I'm not super cautious.

Spammers do use address harvesters that look at links as well as
the visible text. If you don't want to use a link, just use an
image file.

An example of an image file without a link is at the top of my
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/mail_to_me.html >; near the middle of the
same page is a link without the visible address (with the image of
an envelope). An example of an image and link together is near the
bottom of my <URL:http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_keysign.htm l>.

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David E. Ross
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/>

I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that
complies with Web standards. See <URL:http://www.mozilla.org/>.

[D. Stussy]

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Steevo wrote:

"Leif K-Brooks" <eu*****@ecritt ers.biz> wrote in message
news:fq******** ***********@mon ger.newsread.co m...

Steevo wrote:

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email addresses?

On the server side as part of a mailing list? On the webmaster side
before you upload a page containing email addresses? On the
newsreader/emailer side before you send a message? We're not psychic,
you know.

Sorry, didn't realise there were so many areas you could cloak email
addresses! I was referring to cloaking emails on webpages instead of having
a mailto: link.

Use a server-side script (e.g. PHP) that has a mail function. That way, the
visitor's browser never needs to know where your mailbox is.

[Steevo]

"D. Stussy" <kd****@bde-arc.ampr.org> wrote in message
news:Pi******** *************** *****@kd6lvw.am pr.org...

Use a server-side script (e.g. PHP) that has a mail function. That way,
the
visitor's browser never needs to know where your mailbox is.

Hosting server has many scripts installed, including PHP. Are there any
suggested scripts that are proven to be reliable?
Many thanks

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Steevo

[Michael Vilain]

In article <d6**********@n ewsg4.svr.pol.c o.uk>,
"Steevo" <st****@uk2k.co m> wrote:

"D. Stussy" <kd****@bde-arc.ampr.org> wrote in message
news:Pi******** *************** *****@kd6lvw.am pr.org...

Use a server-side script (e.g. PHP) that has a mail function. That way,
the
visitor's browser never needs to know where your mailbox is.

Hosting server has many scripts installed, including PHP. Are there any
suggested scripts that are proven to be reliable?
Many thanks

Yeah. The ones you've research, designed, written, and debugged
yourself.

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DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee...

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Steevo wrote:

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email
addresses?

None. If you've got a stable email address, it's going to leak out
anyway, one way or another. Waste of time and effort trying to hide
it - and maddening for your correspondents if you keep changing it.

Spend the time and effort on anti-spam measures instead. That rates
to work regardless of who's found your address.

I'm in a particularly favourable position: being the owner of two of
the three most heavily spammed addresses in the Department (most of
those attempts are rejected out of hand, of course), as well as being
assistant postmaster, I can guarantee a fast track into our blocking
lists for any spammer who manages to get past the existing defences.
But discussing the details of that would take us way beyond what's
on-topic for this group.

good luck

[The drummer for Def Leppard only has one arm.]

Steevo wrote:

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email addresses?
Many thanks

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[Philip Ronan]

The drummer for Def Leppard only has one arm. wrote:

Steevo wrote:

Any suggestions as to the best programs for cloaking email addresses?
Many thanks

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That won't work. There's a program called "EFGrabber" that can rip these
quite easily. See <http://tinyurl.com/7zc3w>

Your best option is to keep email addresses off your site completely and use
a server-processed feedback form instead.

If you really *must* have an email link on your site, you'll have to use
Javascript to disguise it. I've posted an example here:
<http://vzone.virgin.ne t/phil.ronan/scramble.html>

Phil

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http://vzone.virgin.net/phil.ronan/