Keep spammer from seeing my email addie in html code, how?

I use a form on my website to have people send me email, but of course my
email address shows in the html code used by the form. Although users cannot
see the email address, I suspect some spiders/bots can scan through the html
code and collect email addresses that way.

1) Is there any way to hide/mask my address in the html code?

2) Is there any way to hide all the html code in general to keep people from
viewing it? (I think I already know the answer to #2 is "No'.)

Tom
Sun Nov 14 10:37:16 CST 2004

The answer to both is "no" when using the FP forms to email.
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"Wilton Smith" <WiltonSmith@cnn.com> wrote in message
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| I use a form on my website to have people send me email, but of course my
| email address shows in the html code used by the form. Although users
cannot
| see the email address, I suspect some spiders/bots can scan through the
html
| code and collect email addresses that way.
|
| 1) Is there any way to hide/mask my address in the html code?
|
| 2) Is there any way to hide all the html code in general to keep people
from
| viewing it? (I think I already know the answer to #2 is "No'.)
|
|

MD
Sun Nov 14 16:02:06 CST 2004

Hi Wilton,

Take a look at Spam Stopper for FrontPage
Stop Spam Email Mining from your web pages with SpamStopper
http://www.websunlimited.com/order/product/SpamStopper/spam_stopper_help_dir.htm

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"Wilton Smith" <WiltonSmith@cnn.com> wrote in message news:ehfuRFmyEHA.2624@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I use a form on my website to have people send me email, but of course my
> email address shows in the html code used by the form. Although users cannot
> see the email address, I suspect some spiders/bots can scan through the html
> code and collect email addresses that way.
>
> 1) Is there any way to hide/mask my address in the html code?
>
> 2) Is there any way to hide all the html code in general to keep people from
> viewing it? (I think I already know the answer to #2 is "No'.)
>
>

Richard
Mon Nov 15 20:22:12 CST 2004

I convert my email addresses to bitmaps. From the viewer's perspective, it
still looks like normal text but to a spam bot searching for addresses, I do
not believe that they see an address.
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Richard Lewis Haggard

"MD Websunlimited" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Wilton,
>
> Take a look at Spam Stopper for FrontPage
> Stop Spam Email Mining from your web pages with SpamStopper
> http://www.websunlimited.com/order/product/SpamStopper/spam_stopper_help_dir.htm
>
> --
> Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97-'02
> http://www.websunlimited.com
> FrontPage Add-ins Since '97 2003 / 2002 / 2000 Compatible
>
> "Wilton Smith" <WiltonSmith@cnn.com> wrote in message
> news:ehfuRFmyEHA.2624@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>I use a form on my website to have people send me email, but of course my
>> email address shows in the html code used by the form. Although users
>> cannot
>> see the email address, I suspect some spiders/bots can scan through the
>> html
>> code and collect email addresses that way.
>>
>> 1) Is there any way to hide/mask my address in the html code?
>>
>> 2) Is there any way to hide all the html code in general to keep people
>> from
>> viewing it? (I think I already know the answer to #2 is "No'.)
>>
>>
>
>

Kathleen
Tue Nov 16 05:40:27 CST 2004

The practice of requiring your visitors to be able to see the contents of an
image can cause problems for people with disabilities; you may want to read
this: Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests
http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/


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Richard Lewis Haggard <HaggardAtWorldDotStdDotCom> wrote:
> I convert my email addresses to bitmaps. From the viewer's
> perspective, it still looks like normal text but to a spam bot
> searching for addresses, I do not believe that they see an address.
> ===
> "Everyone needs something to believe in. I believe I'll have another
> beer." Richard Lewis Haggard
>
> "MD Websunlimited" <none@none.com> wrote in message
> news:OAOKZWpyEHA.3976@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Wilton,
>>
>> Take a look at Spam Stopper for FrontPage
>> Stop Spam Email Mining from your web pages with SpamStopper
>>
http://www.websunlimited.com/order/product/SpamStopper/spam_stopper_help_dir.htm
>>
>> --
>> Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97-'02
>> http://www.websunlimited.com
>> FrontPage Add-ins Since '97 2003 / 2002 / 2000 Compatible
>>
>> "Wilton Smith" <WiltonSmith@cnn.com> wrote in message
>> news:ehfuRFmyEHA.2624@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> I use a form on my website to have people send me email, but of
>>> course my email address shows in the html code used by the form.
>>> Although users cannot
>>> see the email address, I suspect some spiders/bots can scan through
>>> the html
>>> code and collect email addresses that way.
>>>
>>> 1) Is there any way to hide/mask my address in the html code?
>>>
>>> 2) Is there any way to hide all the html code in general to keep
>>> people from
>>> viewing it? (I think I already know the answer to #2 is "No'.)

Guido
Thu Nov 18 21:35:52 CST 2004

This is the script I use for my sites.

Website by <script language=javascript>
<!--
var showtag="@"
var showlink="Your Name";
var showname="userID";
var showhost="host name";
document.write("<a href="+"mail"+"to:"+showname+showtag+showhost+
">"+showlink+"</a>")
//-->
</script>


"Wilton Smith" <WiltonSmith@cnn.com> wrote in message
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>> 1) Is there any way to hide/mask my address in the html code?

Murray
Fri Nov 19 06:02:13 CST 2004

I suppose anybody who is crafty enough to program a bot to scrape emails
from screens can see through such scripts....

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"Guido" <nowayjose@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This is the script I use for my sites.
>
> Website by <script language=javascript>
> <!--
> var showtag="@"
> var showlink="Your Name";
> var showname="userID";
> var showhost="host name";
> document.write("<a href="+"mail"+"to:"+showname+showtag+showhost+
> ">"+showlink+"</a>")
> //-->
> </script>
>
>
> "Wilton Smith" <WiltonSmith@cnn.com> wrote in message
> news:ehfuRFmyEHA.2624@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> 1) Is there any way to hide/mask my address in the html code?
>
>