Thanks, Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Cutter (CF-Talk) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 1:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Settle an argument for me
Mark,
I can't see how they could reverse engineer it (though spammers are
known to get notoriously industrious.) A technique I've used in the past
is to set up a dynamic listing of contacts, which brings up a custom
(branded no less) form for the message, then sends the contactID and
message details to a script which makes a db call for the actual address
to cfmail to. No addresses in code, branded message window, easy contact
maintenance, and tracking as well (if needed.) This might be a better
answer to your client's issues (though their ISP or an internal admin
may have sold their address list anyway, or the spammers are using a
rotation listing to target any address permutation of their domain.)
Cutter
Mark Leder wrote:
> I've been using a UDF called "emailAntiSpam", which replaces an email
> address in the source code with extended characters which supposedly can't
> be crawled and picked up by spambots.
>
> So my address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] would look like:
>
> <a
>
href=""> >
earlywhitesmi
> ;le.com" target="_blank">Notify the
> Webmaster</a>
>
> My problem, my client thinks they are still being picked up and used for
> spam - I also have a robots.txt file set to disallow bot crawling.
>
> I've had both these in place since day one, when the site was posted about
3
> months ago.
>
> Does it actually work?
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
>
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