Anti-Spam
Tricks and Tips.
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Tips & Tricks:No Spam
Spammers use automatic methods, BOT software
to gather information about you from your sites. BOT are
WebCrawler which harvest e-mail address from online site.
You can use fallowing method to make it difficult to harvest
e-mail from your site.
- Scrambling email addresses.
- Email Masking.
- Disply E-mail address in image format.
- Disply E-mail address in Text format.
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Scrambling email addresses.
To make it more difficult for spam bots to "harvest" email addresses
from your pages you can use this "scrambler" that turns the email
address into its ASCII code equivalent.
Enter the email address in the first field and hit the submit
button. The scrambled address will be displayed in the second
field.
Copy the scrambled code and paste it where the email address
should go in you code. (The ASCII code will be automatically selected
for you, so you just need to hit "copy")
If you want to improve your chances even more you can embed the
ASCII code in JavaScript. This code will create a mailto: link
where it's placed in the body section of the page.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write("<a href='mailto:put your
scrambled address here'> Contact us!</a>")
// -->
</script>
If you don't want to wrap the ASCII code in JavaScript
you can use an ordinary HTML link, like this:
<a href="mailto:put your scrambled address here"> Contact us!</a>
for nospam@adsoftindia.com code will be
<p>Write to me, <script
type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write("<a href='mailto:nospam
@adsof tindia
. com'> here!</a>")
// -->
</script></p>
The end result will look something like this:
Write to me,
Email Masking -- Protection From Spam
Here is a tip that you can use to cut down on the spam you receive…it
is a technique known as email masking.
You can execute this trick no matter what kind of computer you
possess. To date there are no acknowledged issues with this fix
for the Mac or Linux or any of the countless variants of Microsoft's
operating system. One of the ways this could be accomplished is
by assuming your email is nospam2@adsoftindia.com, then instead
of using this code to represent that:
To write to me, <a href="mailto:nospam2@adsoftindia.com">
click here</a>
you would use this code to stop people from gathering information
about you from your website:
To write to me, <a href="javascript:window.location='ma'+'ilto:'+'no'+'spam2'+'@ad'+'soft'+'india'+'.com'"
onmouseover="window.status='You can click here to send me an
e-mail!';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return
true;"> here</a>
The end result will look something like this:
Write to me, here.
Disply E-mail address in image format
Another approach you can use is to disguise your
email account in a .jpg or .gif format. Everyone knows that spammers
use automatic methods to gather information about you from your
sites. These methods do not recognize images; therefore your email
account will be safe (for the most part) from the demons of spam.
Disply E-mail address in Text format
This is the method we are using in our own site, there is no spam
reported even through this method.
The end result will look something like this:
Write to me at nospam4@adsoftindia.com |