Re: Protecting Email links

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From: Mark K (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:13:42 -0800

Thanks but that is WAY beyond my skills as a "webmaster".
Anything easier???

>-----Original Message-----
>The best approach is to use a form with a server-side
script (such as ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc.) that
>would look up the email address in a database for the
individual and then send the email without the
>site visitor ever seeing the email address, unless the
individual actually replies to the message.
>
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>"Mark K" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>news:24e501c5023e$7b9ecdc0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>>I am creating a page for my companies website with
contact
>> information for the people in this office. Is there a
way
>> to keep the email links from being crawled by the spam
>> spyders? I herd you can put some code just b4 the email
>> link to stop the spiders from crawling it. If nt would
>> putting the addresses into a spread*** on the page
keep
>> them from being crawled?
>>
>> Had a very bad experiennce with our last website. Emails
>> were plainly posted and within a couple of months we
were
>> receiving approx. 150 spams a day per address.
>>
>> Thanks Mark
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