[DM-MUG] the iWebsite

[Stuart Thiessen]

I think the best thing to do is to create a contactus form and then 
have the form email the information to the person. You can put the 
names of the officers and whoever else in a drop down list or a radio 
button list or whatever, and then when the form gets ready to email, it 
can do a lookup of the email address and send it to the right 
person(s). Of course, this requires some minimal programming in the 
language of your choice to do the work behind the scenes. But that 
should minimize the harvesting. Right? :) If you design it right, you 
should be able to make this form become your "mailto:" for anything 
that requires an email to an officer. You can build it so that the 
officer can be preselected or that the topic is preselected. This gives 
you a bit more control than the mailto link, but takes more work on the 
front end unless you find a script somewhere or a template that has 
already done that.

I am planning to do this on the websites that I administer. I learned 
all this after the fact. Oh, well.

Thanks,

Stuart

On Mar 29, 2007, at 7:44, John D. Todd wrote:

> I believe you will still get hit because you have a mailto: link that 
> is in plain text and contains your full email address.
>
> JT
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>
>>> Nope, iWeb Blogs are one way only.
>>> Also, I'd use the official aliases instead of actual email 
>>> addresses, those will get spidered and spammed lickety split.
>>
>> It's been editted to use the word 'at' rather than the sign and that 
>> should at least control the spiders.
>>
>> http://web.mac.com/victoriaherring/iWeb/DMMUG/Welcome.html
>>
>
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