Outreach: report

[Wanda Hill]

Regarding email addresses, I posted to a listserve the other day about 
cloaking email addresses so a human could still click a link and invoke an 
email blank with the To field correctly filled. I received about three 
recommendations for Enkoder, another for 
http://fantomaster.com/fantomasSuite/mailShield/famshieldsv-e.cgi 
(unicoder), and some sort of redirect-mailto program. BTW, some spambots 
apparently search for "mailto" as a marker in code. That would stand to 
reason that spammers can also reverse-convert special code if they know 
you're trying to hide but leave the telltale "mailto" expression in. One 
sobering response came from someone I had worked with a couple of years 
ago, who's a triple-A grade coder.

excerpt--
"if you are already getting spam to an email address, you may as well throw 
that email address away. The spam lists are sold to other spammers so the 
address cannot be hidden now so it will continue to collect spam. You 
should use a completely new email address...."

Aaron, nice you've been doing the networking lunches and that Janet has 
volunteered to set up March.

Wanda

At 12:03 PM 2/20/2006, Aaron DaMommio wrote:
>What I've been up to
>
>Networking lunches
>- I've been posting to the weblog as needed re: these
>- Networking lunch at Freebirds, Hancock Center, on 1/19, was only lightly 
>attended. This made me think that moving it around from place to place was 
>a bad idea. Moved it back to Madras Pavilion for the 2/15 lunch, and got 8 
>people. Working with that idea.
>- On the other hand, Janet Swisher has volunteered to host the March one, 
>at a more southerly location. So we'll see how that goes.
>
>Website editing
>I noticed that the mailto links on the officers page were plain HTML and 
>pretty easy to harvest e-mails from for spam, so I mailed Seth and he gave 
>me the info I needed to change the page. I added a little javascript to 
>hide the mail addresses from spam bots...we hope. Suggestions are 
>welcome...take a look at what I did on the officers page first though. I 
>just used a script I got off the web; I chose the one I did because it 
>claimed to be compatible across a wide range of browsers and options, and 
>to degrade well if javascript is not available (a human can figure out the 
>right e-mail if the javascript link doesn't work).
>
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