[WEB4LIB] RE: re webmaster address on web site

[Karen Jurgens]

Jerry,

I'm new on this list (not a librarian, just a techie but work p/t at one)
and for this msg out of lurk mode.  I don't know what else people here
have tried but if you use Dreamweaver there is a downloadable behavior
called UTImailto that embeds the email address in the page in binary
format that cannot be picked up by spambots.  One can also put the
email address into a graphic (linked to a mailto:) that is the same as
the surrounding text.

An example can be found at the bottom of www.ossininglibrary.org (or
do a view text and see the contact/mailto for webweaver at bottom of
code).  When you cursor over the Webweaver image you will see the real
email address but it is not that way in the code.

Hope this helps someone.

Karen
www.ossininglibrary.org
(currently being revised/expanded)

www.bestweb.net/~laelia

back to lurk.


Thursday, August 08, 2002, 4:37:21 PM, you wrote:

JK> ..or a comment form, rather than mailto links that web-email clients can't click on anyway [have I found time to take my own advice? Not yet.]

JK> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
JK> From: "Bosman, Don" <dbosman at mail.lib.msu.edu>
JK> Reply-To: dbosman at mail.lib.msu.edu
JK> Date:  Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:24:10 -0700 (PDT)

>>I agree with most of your list of dumbest blunders, but not about the webmasters email address. 
>>Leaving off the webmaster's email address will help in keeping their Spam allotment down. 
>>If it must be there, put it in as a graphic of the address to prevent bots from adding the address to their collections. 
>>If one must have a click able way of mailing the web master, send the post to a database file that can't be spammed. 
>>
>>Don Bosman
>>Information Technologist
>>Michigan State University Libraries
>>517-353-8586
>>dbosman at mail.lib.msu.edu
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Paul Taylor [mailto:ptaylor at tln.lib.mi.us]
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:31 PM
>>> To: Multiple recipients of list
>>> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Library Websites that think locally
>>> 
>>> 
>>> How about no e-contact information (i.e.: webmaster, etc.)?
>>> -Paul
>>> 
>>
>>

JK> --
JK> Jerry Kuntz
JK> Electronic Resources Consultant
JK> Ramapo Catskill Library System
JK> jkuntz at rcls.org

JK> --



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 Karen                            mailto:kjurgens at bestweb.net
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