On the blogging front, I completed my Contact page and learned a little about ways to obfuscate my email address from annoying spam-bots. A rudimentary web search will yield mucho hits on protecting yourself from spam scum. Here are three that represented common ways to skin this donkey.
This article, verplant.org/obfumail.shtml, shows how to use CSS to obscure an email address that needs to appear in the body of HTML text on your page. This takes minimal work but won’t help you if you need to hide a mailto: call inside a link tag.
This article here, alicorna.com/obfuscator.html, provides a small utility that will convert your entire email link and display to ASCII coded characters. While this is not 100% foolproof it does stop almost all current spam-bots.
The best method came from here, www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/, where another web utility will create a javascript function for you with your email address encrypted using a public/private key combo internal to your webpage. This is VERY strong and very clever… and no spam-bot can touch you. This is the method I used to do my email addresses on my Contact page… can you find them in the source? (Good luck… I even used different primes to create separate key combos for each one)
I'm a Christ-follower, compelled by my faith toward reason, which points directly toward conservatism. This world's daily onslaught of lunacy offends my intellect and senses, so this is my venue to blow off steam.
Boy, I tell you what. That mail script you used really went all out. Even the variable names are non-obvious. This makes even the vaunted WWIV random password generator look like crap.
Jim Tucek’s page is permanently dead.
Dan Appleman re-created a new page to do almost the same.
see:
http://www.danappleman.com/?page_id=61
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This script has been a godsend for me! I’ve used it on my personal sites and for my work as well!
Just wanted to drop by and say thanks.
Thanks for this script, it has saved me a ton of time and energy