[DM-MUG] the iWebsite

[Darcy Baston]

You can also use javascript to hide an email address.

Example:

<p>Send your comments and questions to our

<script language=javascript>
   <!--
   var contact = "Newsletter Editor"
   var email = "news"
   var emailHost = "netmechanic.com"
   document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + email + "@" +  
emailHost+ ">" + contact + "</a>" + ".")
   //-->
</script>
</p>

It's also better not to use a mailto: url and instead run a server- 
side script that uses an smtp daemon. I recall having problems with  
AOL browsers that wouldn't accept some mailto: urls.

Darcy

On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Matthew W. wrote:

Alternately, using a Flash graphic as your e-mail will also offer  
protection from site crawlers. This, too requires some programming,  
but perhaps finding a graphic artist who'd like to get their name on  
the site as the designer might agree to a pro bono arrangement.

Matthew

On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> 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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