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Spammers are becoming increasingly irritating so we at easisites
are doing our bit to stop them from harvesting easisites website
owners' emails.
All emails entered
as Contact information (when building your site) is encrypted on your
web pages.
While email addresses
are visible to normal users (useful if they want to jot it down or write
personally), they appear as a string of code to spam engines.
This method is reckoned
to defeat the majority of harvester programs. Whilst the harvester could
(in theory) decode the string, most won't because it isn't worth the hassle
or the processing expense.
NB:
This encryption will not touch any email address you may type anywhere
else on your website (ie in a freestyle text area), but you can encrypt
these yourself very simply.
Go to http://javascript.about.com/library/blemail1.htm
Type the words you
want for your email link (eg "Email Me") in the Name box, then
the email address in, you guessed it, the Email Address box.
Then choose HTML and
click on Conceal Email.
Then Highlight All
and copy and paste the highlighted code into your website where you want
the email address to appear.
You can see how this
works for yourself, by right clicking on this page and viewing source.
Towards the bottom of the page, you will find something like this:
email <a class="unnamed2" href="mai...
....;k">admin@easisites.co.uk</a>
except that it's a
bit longer than that! |
