Re: Matt's FormMail

Sunil,

I believe that what was being described got converted, so they wound up
looking the same.

To convert "normal" letters to ASCII, you can use Windows' Character Map (if
you have Windows) or a reference book on the ASCII character set to convert
things. An encoded email address may look like:

email@email.&#09
9;om

which, unless I REALLY miscalculated, should display as email(at)email.com in a
browser. Since it's all "encoded" a typical spider would not be able to
snark your address that way.

Give it a try. If you want, feel free to email me back for a table of the
standard ASCII code, or you can do a search for something like it.

Good luck!
Kehvan M. Zydhek

PS: To help ensure that the above "encoded" email address DOESN'T convert,
here is that code again, with spaces inserted between each character:

& # 1 0 1 ; & # 1 0 9 ; & # 0 9 7 ; & # 1 0 5 ; & # 1 0 8 ; & # 0 6 4 ; & #
1 0 1 ; & # 1 0 9 ; & # 0 9 7 ; & # 1 0 5 ; & # 1 0 8 ; & # 0 4 6 ; & # 0 9
9 ; & # 1 1 1 ; & # 1 0 9 ;

Just don't encode your address with the spaces! :-)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunil Bahl" <sunilbahl(at)tigersden.i-p.com>
To: <Dennis.Lapcewich(at)unisa.edu.au>
Cc: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 12:24 AM
Subject: RE: Matt's FormMail


> Hi Dennis,
>
> >>You may want to consider using an ASCII chart and >>convert you email
address to
> >>ASCII code. It shows up fine in the page in a >>browser, but the code is
mangled
> >>enough a spider won't see it as an email address.
>
> How does one do this??? This is a bit too technical for me. Can you please
tell me how this can be done in simple words.
>
> I think this can be of great help to everyone to protect themselves
against the spamers.
>
> >>For example, an address of ...
> >>fred.bloggs(at)someplace.com
> >>could be changed to
> >>fred.bloggs(at)someplace.com
>
> What's the difference??? The e-mail addresses are the same!
>
> Await your reply.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Sunil.
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