Have you ever wondered how some spammer got your e-mail address? One of the easiest ways for you to get on a spamming list is for your e-mail address to appear on a Web site that is open to the public.<\/p>\n
The spam masters of the world constantly send out software robots whose sole function in life is to \u201ccrawl\u201d Web sites looking for e-mail addresses. When they find one on a Web page, software robots, or \u201cbots,\u201d save the address to a database. The database is then sold or it is used directly by the person who harvested the address. Now you are on another spam list.<\/p>\n
The cure is simple: Hide e-mail addresses.<\/p>\n
There are two ways to do this in a website. The safer way is to create a carefully validated form for people to send email to you. The only use of an email address is hidden in a script that resides only on the web server and does not get delivered directly to the public. A person fills out a form in your Web site, giving their name and stating their interest. (We use this technique in our website<\/a>.) When your site visitors\u00a0click the submit button, mail is sent to you. Forms can be set up so that the website visitor selects which department \u00a0s\/he wants the message to reach. The form script does the rest.<\/p>\n The second way to hide e-mail addresses is to hide them in a data table so that they are delivered to a web page only as a result of a direct query. In this way, someone (usually a human being, not a bot) has to fill out a form asking for specific information \u2013\u00a0such as \u201cCustomer Relations.\u201d<\/p>\n Message<\/strong>: You should not place an email address in the text of any Web page or post. Instead, you should route email requests through self-validating forms or through database queries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever wondered how some spammer got your e-mail address? One of the easiest ways for you to get on a spamming list is for your e-mail address to appear on a Web site that is open to the public. The spam masters of the world constantly send out software robots whose sole function […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":157,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-159","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netpresence.us\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}