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1. Re: Is it possiable to block email address from a form
Nancy O. Jul 9, 2010 2:05 PM (in response to BearHNC)You have to be plumb masochistic to publish an email address on a web site these days. Sooner or later, your inbox will be so stuffed with spam mail you won't want to open it.
You need a contact form connected to a Form-to-Email processing script. These come in a variety of flavors depending on your server. PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, Perl... If unsure, contact your web host. Often they have scripts you can use already installed on the server. If not, the following links may be of interest to you. And no, you can't do this without looking at code.
Form Mailer PHP from DB Masters
If your server supports PHP, this Form-mailer script from DB Masters conceals your email address from prying eye email harvesters and it has spam controls built into its script -- including hidden field (honeypot), "sorta captcha," and time limits on submissions to keep robots from exploiting your forms. One script can run all the forms on your domain. Free to use if you credit the author; $20 if you don't.
http://dbmasters.net/index.php?id=4
Forms to Go from Bebosoft (script generating software)
http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/overview/Wufoo.com (on-line form service)
http://wufoo.com/Nancy O.
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2. Re: Is it possiable to block email address from a form
Mylenium Jul 10, 2010 3:20 AM (in response to BearHNC)Blocking addresses requires some form of code that does the filtering and verification, either locally with JavaScript or on the server backend with PHP, ASP etc.. Including human-readable mail addresses anywhere in the client-side HTML is indeed risky, so depending on how you built your form, you may want to look into alternatives. It may even be worthwile to install a blog system/ CMS liek WordPress or Joomla just for the benefit of using a good contact form plug-in with them and also otehrwise exploit their anti-spam tools.
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