Website email without making my address public?

[Kerry]

How can I enable visitors to my website to send email to me without making my email address public? I would hate for my email address to fall prey to one of those automatic spam harvesters.

Basic "mailto" links have the address right in the hyperlink, so that is obviously unacceptable. I considered using a form to email the visitors message to me. But the form I created with FrontPage 2003 reveals the email destination right in the source code:

<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" ... S-Email-Address="(e-mail address removed)" ... SaveResults" endspan -->

Can anyone suggest a method that keeps my email private? My server supports FPSE2002.

Gratefully,

Kerry

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FP]]

How can I enable visitors to my website to send email to me without
making my email address public? I would hate for my email address to
fall prey to one of those automatic spam harvesters.

Basic "mailto" links have the address right in the hyperlink, so that
is obviously unacceptable. I considered using a form to email the
visitors message to me. But the form I created with FrontPage 2003
reveals the email destination right in the source code:

<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" ...
S-Email-Address="(e-mail address removed)" ... SaveResults" endspan
-->

Can anyone suggest a method that keeps my email private? My server
supports FPSE2002.

Kerry:
I've been using this to disguise my mailto: links - it seems to be working
(for now anyway): http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/obfuscator/

 

[Kerry]

Thanks for the tips. I later found a javascript utility called Enkoder that allows you to encrypt selected hyperlinks in your source code. It seems pretty neat. Check it out here:


http://automaticlabs.com/enkoderform/

Kerry

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FP]]

Well, I think I may give Kerry's suggestion a try. I used the site I
recommended to create an email link about two weeks ago and never gave the
email address out to anyone - the only place it existed was on a web page

Today, it received a piece of spam. :-(

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Maybe that site took your email address and sold it.

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