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Berlin-Bob
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by My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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You have a web site and you want to give your e-mail address so people can contact you
(hopefully with more information about that missing ggg-grandfather !)
BUT: there are programs that trawl the web, looking for e-mail addresses, and you don't want loads of SPAM turning up in your mail-box !!
Here are some possibilities:
1) you don't give the address directly
example:
this-is-me [at sign] mymailbox.com
Anti-spam measure, copy and paste and replace [at sign] with @, there should be no spaces.
This is OK but it's a bit clumsy, much better for "service" sites (I borrowed this wording from an OPC site offering look-ups)
2) Use HTML special characters i.e. &64; = @
example
this-is-me&64;mymailbox.com
It will still look like an @ but the trawler programs won't see it as an @ and hence, won't recognise it as an e-mail address
3) Use an image.
Using PAINT or any other graphic program, use the text option to create a small file with just your e-mail address. Convert the file to jpg or gif format to save space and then include the .gif/.jpg file as an image on your web-site.
There is no text-@ so trawler programs won't recognise it as an e-mail address
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« Last Edit: Friday 22 April 05 07:56 BST (UK) by Berlin-Bob »
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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JAP
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Bob, thanks very much for this information! Though I doubt anything will stop the Spam I get!
I'm a bit worried about using special characters because so often they are not readable by all browsers or all computers/systems. As a PC user but Mac-aficionado from the way back, I'm always conscious of this.
I like the idea of an image (perhaps with the clumsy 'at' as text behind it?).
Now all I have to do is put this into effect on my extremely basic website. Just one problem - it's on my dial-up ISP not my broadband ISP (yes, I have both at present). A bit of a hassle changing over in order to change the website (esp unwinding metres of phone cord to get the dial-up working - don't ask!).
Susan41, I haven't looked at the site you recommend yet but certainly will.
Cheers,
JAP
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Scotland - HALL, HARLEY, LOCHTY/LOCHTIE/LOUGHTIE/LOUGHTY (very rare), MCLAUSE/MCLAWS/MCILHOSE/HOSE (quite rare and many very variable spellings - close to 100 to date), PHILP/PHILIP, VASSIE; Ireland - BOURKE/BURKE, DONOHUE (many spellings), DOOLEY, KINSELLA, MAXWELL, OSBORNE, RAFFERTY, STA(U)NTON, SULLIVAN; England - BAYES, BROWNELL, DALTON, FREEMAN, HACKING, PIERCY, SIDDLE, SWIFT, SULLIVAN, TINK(L)ER, TRIPPIT. Any spellings and many other names!
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Gamone
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We must not forget that spam is basically an illegal phenomenon. I have always considered that my Internet service provider has the moral responsibility to prevent unsollicited messages from being dispatched down the line to subscribers such as me. And it goes without saying that the Internet service provider must respect this responsibility as a perfectly ordinary automatic necessity, not as a money-making thing. In other words, it would be preposterous, on the part of an Internet service provider, to ask subscribers to actually pay for such protection from spam. That would be like a bank asking its customers to rent out bullet-proof vests in case of holdups.
Once upon a time, when my Internet service provider dared to suggest that I might purchase some kind of PC software gadget (which wouldn't, in any case, run on my antiquated Macintosh), I exploded in fury, and sent off several old-fashioned letters making all kinds of perfectly-justified threats. Since then, my spam input has dwindled to almost nothing, because the Internet service provider is perfectly capable of blocking most of the rubbish. All the oldtimers (such as those who made fabulous offers that would enable one of my bodily members to assume gigantic proportions almost overnight) now leave me alone. Only the newcomers succeed in getting through to me, in subtle ways that often amuse me. Some examples of spam are so charming that I don't try to block them: for example, the African widows of ex-presidents who beg me to accept their millions of concealed dollars.) Whenever I do receive a new specimen of undesirable spam (a few times a week), I immediately treat it as an incident of the utmost gravity, as if a terrorist were putting bird-flu virus in my letterbox. I immediately send off a complaint to my Internet service provider, including the code of the offending header. Sending off such a complaint takes less than a minute. And, by magic, I never hear of that fellow again.
In other words, we do in fact live in a society where law and moral responsibility still have meaning. Citizens merely have to remain vigilant and take steps to protect themselves.
William
PS Concerning the threat of bird-flu virus (?), I was thrilled when I learnt that the president of a big friendly Western nation plans to install armed forces at every strategic point of his immense land (if I understand correctly) to instantly shoot down any evil-axis birds with flu virus that might happen to attempt to fly over his territory.
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Skeffington, Skevington, Skiffington, Skivington, etc (England, Ireland) -- Mepham, Pickering (England) -- Walker (Cork) -- Hickey (Tipperary) -- O'Keefe, Dixon (Clare) -- Kennedy, Baillie (Fermanagh) -- Cranston, Dancey (Cavan).
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kerryb
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Hi vanda
Don't know whether you still want to know this, but I have used this method on my site and I really don't get any spam to this email address at all.
It is my partner that gets all the spam!
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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kerryb
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No problem Vanda, tis rather glorious isn't it!!
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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