[AccessD] New EMail Address

I generally don't put your email address on sites period.

If you'd like people to contact you, you could build a custom form which
submit the details to you internally.

If that's no good and you still want to make your address public, some
people often display derivations of the actual address, rather than the
exact text - requiring users to adapt the address themselves of course:

jcolbyREMOVE at THIScolbyconsulting.com
jcolby    @    colbyconsulting DOT com
Etc.

which help to stop crawlers picking up the address.

Might be an option?



-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: Friday, 19 March 2004 3:21 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] New EMail Address

What happens if users have java turned off?

I found something out there that turns the clear text into numeric codes,
which the browser then turns back into alpha when "read".  Does that work?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
(AccessD)
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:28 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] New EMail Address


Hi John:

Do not forget to set up your new address in the contact section of your web
site as follows so spam-bots will not be able just extract it. (It does not
matter what shows on the screen, it is what is in the page code that the
'bots' search for.)

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
user = "jcolby";
site = "colbyconsulting.com";
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + user + '@' + user + site + '\">'); //
End --> </script>

HTH
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:59 PM
To: AccessD
Subject: [AccessD] New EMail Address


Anyone who has me in their address book should note that my email address
has changed to jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com (notice the W).  I have turned
off jcolby at colbyconsulting.com due to an overwhelming flood of spam,
approaching 300 spam emails a day.  While my email filter was extremely
accurate in getting them out of my inbox there is the occasional (1 in 500
or so) false positives where a good email gets put out in the spam folder.
It is getting very hard to find them so it's time to just shut that email
box down.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


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