How do I de-activate an email address?

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I insert an email address that I don't want live, but it keeps on activating!

I don't want people to be able to click on it?

I don't want spammers to be able to pick it up?
 
Delete it from your page?

Try providing us with more information.

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| FRONTPAGE 2003
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| I insert an email address that I don't want live, but it keeps on
activating!
|
| I don't want people to be able to click on it?
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| I don't want spammers to be able to pick it up?
 
Pattrick said:
FRONTPAGE 2003

I insert an email address that I don't want live, but it keeps on activating!

I don't want people to be able to click on it?

I don't want spammers to be able to pick it up?
Click to expand...

This article for more info on how to do that.
http://accessfp.net/protect-your-email-address.htm

There are a few ways ... I like best the <code>@<code> method .... it's not
clickable or viewable by a spider bot ... but it is accessible by Screen
readers and anyone else... if someone can't take two seconds to cut and
paste your addy to an email do you really need to speak to them? ...

hth Tina
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I believe the OP is saying they don't want the email as a hyperlink on the
page.

Two solutions:

Use a script (form handler server side script that contains the email
address within it, and have the user fill in a feed-back form. Spamme-bots
can't scan the scripts to find email addresses (or at least not yet), and
using this method the email is *not* shown on the web page.

Or an easy alternative is to make a GIF image (match the b/ground colour &
text colour of the page) and insert that on the page.
Spammer-bots can't pick it up/read images containing text.
 
Tina Clarke said:
This article for more info on how to do that.
http://accessfp.net/protect-your-email-address.htm

There are a few ways ... I like best the <code>@<code> method .... it's
not
clickable or viewable by a spider bot ... but it is accessible by Screen
readers and anyone else... if someone can't take two seconds to cut and
paste your addy to an email do you really need to speak to them? ...

hth Tina
Tip now out is: What to do in FrontPage when extra files
are generated as a result of saving pages from the Internet
http://frontpage-tips.com/ - FrontPage Tips
Frontpage Tips Ebook, Vol I. AVAILABLE NOW!
Join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frontpage-tips/
for F ree weekly FrontPage Tips
Click to expand...
I have finally decided to have no e-mail addresses on my web sites. Always
have a Contact Us page with a form. No spammers, no viruses...
 
I have finally decided to have no e-mail addresses on my web sites. Always
have a Contact Us page with a form. No spammers, no viruses...
Click to expand...

Make sure the form meets accessbility standards so that everyone will be
able to contact you.
That the form does notput your email address in the code so it's visible to
search bots, the frontpage form will do that.

Tina
Tip now out is: What to do in FrontPage when extra files
are generated as a result of saving pages from the Internet
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Frontpage Tips Ebook, Vol I. AVAILABLE NOW!
Join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frontpage-tips/
for F ree weekly FrontPage Tips
 
JUst a tie-in question to the above - can the dreaded bots delve into
database files or are these safe from harvesters? Is this a way to prevent
spamming?
 
It depends on how you have your pages set up. If you have a query to a database that shows results
that contain email addresses, then yes the spammer will be able to retrieve email addresses.

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