through Finalsite to create text boxes that are sent to a person's e-mail
address to avoid posting any e-mail addresses on the website.
We use Barracuda... but still found a lot of spam getting into our e-mail.
We switched over to g-mail, which is free...and can use your own domain
name...and since then, we are 99.9% spam free.
Jeanne Rice
Southern CT Hebrew Academy
www.schacademy.org
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM, CHRISTOPHER BUTLER <cbutler@stjohnsprep.org
> wrote:
> Many websites these days use little javascript tools to mask email
> addresses
> on websites (our site which is managed by Finalsite does this). This
> leaves
> them clickable to end users, but invisible to bots that scan the raw html.
>
> Many email addresses that spammers get are obtained by bots that scan the
> raw html of webpages looking for content that is in the form of an email;
> that is, two blocks of text connected by the '@' symbol. The beauty of the
> javascript tool is that the raw html has nothing that looks like an email
> address, but the rendered web page presents something that looks like an
> email address and that when clicked acts like a mailto: reference.
>
> As for the other question about filters, currently I'm pretty happy with
> our
> Barracuda. We've got it locked down pretty tight with very few false
> positives and very little leakage of bad emails. It took a while to get it
> to this point but now needs very little maintenance.
>
> Christopher
>
> --
> Christopher Butler
> Academic Technology Director
> St. John's Preparatory School
> http://www.stjohnsprep.org
>
>
>
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