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    If you want a ten minute break from WAS...

    Two Simple Steps to Spam-Proof Your Website
    by Steve Peterson, Sr. Webmeister
    Pinnacle Trade Show Displays

    Protect your email address from SPAM
    I always recommend that you put your contact details clearly on your website.
    This is a matter of courtesy to your visitors. It also helps establish you as a credible supplier by making it clear who they are dealing with.
    After all, what do you think when you find a website that seems interesting but has no information on the company behind it?
    However, there is a downside. Your contact details are also visible to Spammers. In particular your email address can be 'harvested' by programs specifically designed to collect such information in order to sell them to mass merchandisers for spam email campaigns. All these programs have to do is search for an @ in a suitable format.
    Now I have found a solution for which I am indebted to a guy called Steve Peterson Sr.
    For full details, go to...

    http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/adv_tech/spam-proof.htm

    In essence, he suggests replacing the @ symbol with Unicode so that the appearance to human visitors is not changed but programs looking for @ will not find it.
    I have made the change on my site already. It does not end all spam; but hopefully, as from now, I won't find myself on so many new lists.
    Try it yourself. For minimum effort, you could save yourself a lot of hassle.

    An extract from the...Web 4 Marketing...Newsletter...August 2004
    Produced by Stephen Orr..."Your internet marketing consultant"
    www.web4marketing.co.uk
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    #2
    RE: If you want a ten minute break from WAS...

    Hi Tony,

    Great tip.
    My two cents to this issue:

    You are right about the fact that email-addresses are harvested from our sites.
    However, so are our copyright protected images and other information. Product comparisations, pricing lists etc.

    To cover all issues at once rahter then having a lot of individual solutions, I would suggest to use HTMLGuardian.
    Free to use software that protects your HTML code and prevents from steeling your code, images or harvesting your emailaddresses.

    Regards,

    Marcel

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      #3
      RE: If you want a ten minute break from WAS...

      That sound very comprehensive Marcel
      I must look @ it...Thanks very much
      Tony

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        #4
        RE: If you want a ten minute break from WAS...

        Marcel

        Thanks for the tip. That looks like a very nice product and should be very useful, particularly for protecting data on a page.

        Jerry

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          #5
          RE: If you want a ten minute break from WAS...

          Hello again...The URL below...is very professional..brilliantly created & brilliantly presented...My apologies if you've seen it before BUT... it is very...very funny...
          Regards Tony Moriarty

          http://jibjab.hoverstudios.com/mirror.htm

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            #6
            RE: If you want a ten minute break from WAS...

            Interesting. Now I understand why an etymology list I receive replaces "@" with "_AT_" in all the email addresses it displays.

            Bill
            Bill Hanigsberg

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