OT: Emailer from website

Jim, read up on MUNGING your email address. Using Escape characters or other unexpected methods (which still display properly on HTML readers) works for me and many other folks.

Looks like this in raw code:

mailto:service@flipp....

This looks like a good site with options to protect your email.

John

It can be done using Javascript. Here is a code generator:

It can also be done using CSS:

If you have a CMS such as Drupal there will be obfuscation plugins. For example:

Regarding spam you already get this application will be of interest:

This deletes spam before being downloaded from the mail server, and it can automate SpamCop complaints.

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To respond to me directly remove sj. from the my email address's domain  
name. This is a spam jammer.

(It's the tag.) What runs behind the scenes is up to you. but may be limited by your choice of hosting and security concerns.

Your hosting provider should provide some basic scripts and examples of how to use them on their platform. You need to find out what they provide. It might be as simple as drag and drop the right item onto a reply form page or click a button in the admin section somewhere.

FormMail.pl is a script that more or less does what you want provided that you are allowed to use scripts on your hosting platform.

It may already be provided in the default ISP provided scripts.

Failing that if you must expose an email address for simplicity increment a tag number on the end of it periodically and only accept the current one bouncing all else. This was the first fix used during the Swenfest when people still exposed their true email address online.

My own odd looking Usenet address is legal and works provided that it is not modified in any way. Spamming engines can't resist removing "spam" from it and I don't see anything sent to '''new''' at all. It is a special form of munging where the apparent modifications are essential for the email to reach its destination. It might also do what you want.

It was even better when my ISP accepted the special character "|" in email addresses. It has a special meaning of pipe in Unix and messed up some of the simpler spammers scripts. Better ones substituted another character to avoid crashing themselves (but never put it back).

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Regards, 
Martin Brown

No need for fancy footwork. Just convert the characters to numeric. I have been using this technique for fifteen years and have never got a single spam from my web addresses. Here's how to do it:

1. get a new disposable address.
   formatting link
   is a good one.
2. Go to
   formatting link
3. Enter the desired email address. I use snipped-for-privacy@nezumi.demon.co.uk for an example.
4. Here is the result. Spambots cannot be bothered to decode it. Paste it in your web page and sit back and relax.

news pam@nezumi.de mon.co.uk

Thanks!

Interesting take on it and on a web page it will render it OK. I will give it a try with a sacrificial moniker and see how well it performs.

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Is probable secure enough. Kill rule on "To:" begins with "&". One slight snag with your suggestion is that many WYSIWYG web editors convert the obfuscated numerical form into text on saving. So the relevant page would need to be edited manually in a dumb editor.

Antispam measures at my ISP seem to work well enough these days.

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Regards, 
Martin Brown

You probably need to add "mailto:" in front of the email address. That is the section at the beginning of the link:

Go to the form where you send the email, and hit ctrl/u (this shows html source on many browsers), and see if your email addr is in the source. I'm guessing it is right there in plain text.

Yup, mailto:webmaster@xxx, right there in the html!

The only way to fix it is to have the user send the email text back to the web server for mailing, rather than sending it directly through the user's browser. That way, there would be no reason for the email addr to be in the html. This will require your html server to run a script language for php or something like that.

I'm pretty sure my web store software does it that way, but don't ask me how. It has some 10,000 .php files! WAYYY too complicated for mortals to understand more than one TINY part of the code at a time.

Jon

Good idea! It's probably already available via my website provider, but I didn't know to ask ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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I use ASSmaker to generate a Javascript to create the actual link when you click on it. I add a little code to include a page reference from the website, as well.

This is the JS from my website:

var at = "@"; var bcc = ""; var body = ""; var cc = ""; var email1 = "%20mike.terrell"; var email2 = "earthlink.net"; var email3 = ""; var site = "Michael A. Terrell"; var tag1 = "mail"; var tag2 = "to:";

Michael A. Terrell"; var email = email1 + at + email2 + email3

which also includes the copyright notice for all the pages.

Here is where it is added to a web page:

This is as sample line that goes in the web page:

This is what you see for that page:

You can iew the page source to see how simple it is. There are some bad links and missing files, thanks to Earthlink's great maintenance. The original files are on an old hard drive I have stashed away, so it will take some time to make repairs. Once they are, I will burn a CDROM of all the files for a fast restore.

Editing that one file will change the Email address on all the web pages, if needed or desired.

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Here is a link to the program:

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