A request to put the address of this list on a home page has
prompted these thoughts ...
As an email-only user, your email address will be your
primary channel of communication between your web site
visitors and yourself.
Before putting your email address on your pages, you should
think about who else you are inviting. Free home pages are a
major target for spam robots -- and eventually they WILL
pick you up. Once you are on a spam list, you can never get
off.
Spam robots are programmed to collect mailto anchors like
this
<A HREF="mailto:fred@nurk.net">Email me</A>
They can also recognise email addresses outside anchors, and
some can recognise the use of character entities, eg:
fred@nurk.net instead of fred@nurk.net.
Fortunately, there are many ways to deceive a spam robot.
Below is Sun Zoom Spark's trick ...
<TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0"
SUMMARY="This table is intended to confuse spam robots.
It contains my email address. In a graphical browser
the address will appear normal, but to anything else,
it will not be recognisable as an email address.">
<TR>
<TD></TD>
<TD ROWSPAN="2" VALIGN="BOTTOM">@</TD>
<TD></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>fred</TD>
<TD>nurk.net</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
* Don't put your own email address on your pages in a
conventional form, unless you feel you are not getting
enough spam.
* NEVER put anyone else's email address on your pages in a
conventional form. ALWAYS use a scrambling technique like
the one above.
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