R�ponse suit --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit de l'adresse <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> le 23/03/03 19:28:
>Your filtering/redirect scheme sounds very good (and reflects the >underlying logic and functionality of a well-made email application), but >what strikes me is that it is a "back-end" solution only, and those nasty >spammer DO HAVE your eddress nonetheless. > >What I'd like to know is WHY you are getting the spam in the first place. >I see the spam start to pour in as soon as I register a domain name, or >put my eddress on a page as webmaster or whatever. As you assume, the address is visible on the webpage and the site is now referenced by many robots. > >While it's probably hard to avoid the eddress-selling that certain >vendors practice, I have lately been trying to follow this simple rule >WHENEVER I want to put an email link (or even a non-link eddress >reference) into a web page: > >Encode all the characters of the eddress, both in the link and in the >link description. This should make robots and eddress-harvesters skip >over it, never recognizing it as an email address. (There are various >ways to encode, but, using one method, the HTML code for a link to me, >for example, would be: ><a >href="mailto:dan@danfeat >her.com">dan@da >nfeather.com</a> >) > This seems great to me. the following is the real <a href=mailto:> tag appearing on the website. <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Demande d'information" onmouseover="window.status='Cliquer ici pour envoyer un message à la Présidente';return true"><img src="images/mail3.GIF" alt="eMail Abeille Cyclotourisme" width="35" height="18" align="left" border="0"></a> I suppose the whole link, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Demande d'information" onmouseover="window.status='Cliquer ici pour envoyer un message à la Présidente';return true"><img src="images/mail3.GIF" alt="eMail Abeille Cyclotourisme" width="35" height="18" align="left" border="0"> would need to be encoded in html code. >[BTW, if anyone would like an AppleScript that will perform this >operation, let me know and I'll post it. I would be interested. >And, if you're using OS X, >there's a handy little utility that makes doing this a snap. It's called >SpamStopper, and it's available at www.railheaddesign.com. ] Not yet, thanks. > >I've let my eddresses (un-encoded) get about the 'net for far to long to >make a good judgement whether or not this makes a lot of difference, but >I'd be curious to know what happens to an eddress that is NEVER posted >anywhere or put on any webpage UNLESS it is completely encoded. thanks for the advice. -- Jean-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
