Re: Web Design critique

I did a test on a personal site using an image with the e-mail address
on it and the spam went why down. I am now testing it on another
site to see if it works there too.

Dick


>  Last thing, this concerns obscuring e-mail addresses in HTML. In 2002, the 
>Center for Democracy and Technology (www.cdt.org) ran a six-month project to 
>determine the source of spam. It released its findings in a March 2003 
report, 
>"Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research Six 
>Month Report", <http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml>. One 
>finding is quite eye opening, "Our analysis indicated that e-mail addresses
>posted on Web sites or in newsgroups attract the most spam." So I'd say 
you're 
>ahead of the curve by obscuring your email address on each page. But there 
may 
>be a better way, a way to get your email on your site and stop spammers from 
>getting your e-mail. You can code your email with HTML character entities. 
Say 
>for example your e-mail address is joeblow(at)myemail.com  if you place the
>following code in the HTML of your page:
>
>
>
>&#106;&#111;&#101;&#098;&#108;&#111;&#119;&#064;&#109;&#121;&#101;&#109;&#097
;
>&#105;&#108;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;
>
>
>
>You'll see joeblow(at)myemail.com when the page is parsed and viewed in a
>browser. The coding above obfuscates your e-mail to the email harvesting
>programs that search the internet for e-mail addresses. 

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