Monday, October 8, 2007

Spam Proofing Email Addresses

I need to put an email address on our web page but I don't want to make the address visible to potential Spammers. Many spammers use software tools called "harvesters" to search for strings of text that follow the format 123@abc.xyz PeaShooter has a built-in defense against this problem. If you need to place an email address or an email link using the ConMan page manager, all you need to do is enter the address in a slightly different way. Replace the '@' symbol with '//at//'. For example user@ymca.com would be user//at//ymca.com Peashooter uses Javascript to re-write the address in the correct format for Human users, but the address should be invisible to most email harvesters.

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