Re: Web Page

From: msnews (ef_hutton@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/04/02 

From: "msnews" <ef_hutton@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:44:09 -0600

Ned, couldn't the spammers just develop unicode capable bots?
"Ned Flanders" <nedfla@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uXUr3W7mCHA.1616@TK2MSFTNGP09...
> Cali Alex wrote:
> > Is there a way to hide or encrypt the email address for
> > the contact person we put at the bottom of our web page to
> > help protect against spam and viruses? I have heard there
> > are programs and hackers that can search web domains and
> > web pages searching for un-protected email addresses. Is
> > there any protection for this? I am talking about the
> > email link that shows up when you put you mouse over the
> > button/link/name on the web page and that address shows up
> > at the lower left of the browser. We are trying to help
> > protect our contact person for a web page for a small
> > church. We currently use FP 2000. Can this protection be
> > added to FP 2000? If not, what do you recommend?
> >
> > thanks, Cali
>
> What you're looking for is something that obfuscates the email address, so
> the spam-bot doesn't recognize it as an email address, and skips it.
> I've used e-Cloaker for this
> (http://www.codefoot.com/software/ecloaker/index.html)
> What it does is convert hypertext anchor links
> <A HREF="Mailto:user@domain.tld">Email Link</A>
> to
> <a
>
href="&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;&#117;&#115;&#101;&#114;&#64;&
>
#100;&#111;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#110;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;">&#69;&#109;&#97;&#
> 105;&#108;&#32;&#76;&#105;&#110;&#107;</a>
> format, which the spam-bots are not smart enough to decode. When an
actual
> browser goes over the link though, it displays normally, since browsers
> understand Unicode. Meaning: your human users can still use the email
> link.
>
> Wonderful utility, free and compact (less than 200KB). I have no idea if
it
> works with FP2000 though; I edit my HTML code by hand. I imagine FP2000
has
> an "edit source HTML" or some such that would let you see the mailto:
links
> and replace them with the "encrypted" code though.
>
>