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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / June 2004How do I hide my E-mail address
I am creating a web site for my work, a community garden. I do not want my e-mail right out there, so I was thinking of making it an icon that you can click and up comes an E-mail of something like that Is this possible? You can do it as: Contact Webmaster Then highlite Webmaster with the mouse pointer, right click on it, select Hyperlink and a window will open. In the window select email in the upper right corner and in the box put your e-mail address, i.e., blah@blah.net or your real address if you want to receive mail.  SignatureDon -------- Vancouver, USA - One of the great cities in one of the 45+ countries in the Americas! > I am creating a web site for my work, a community garden. I do not want my > e-mail right out there, so I was thinking of making it an icon that you can > click and up comes an E-mail of something like that > Is this possible? But anybody can still see the actual email address by just looking at properties, no? Maybe a freebie email account like hotmail, or some kind of alias account. My isp includes a freebie alias account or two that forwards to my main email account. >You can do it as: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >blah@blah.net or your real address if you want to receive mail. The way Paula wrote her message I thought she wanted a way to send mail to her. If she doesn't want a way to have visitors send her mail, don't post an address. SignatureDon -------- Vancouver, USA - One of the great cities in one of the 45+ countries in the Americas! > But anybody can still see the actual email address by just looking at > properties, no? Maybe a freebie email account like hotmail, or some kind of [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > >blah@blah.net or your real address if you want to receive mail. It is silly to engage in second guessing, but I assumed she wanted a way to have email sent to her, but not to have her email address visible. I was merely pointing out that even if you obscure an email addy by making it a link, anyone with cursory familiarity with their browser will be able to find out what email addy the link is pointing to. Many people are paranoid for no good reason about this, but there are some legitimate concerns. Whether or not your email addy is visible, if it is on the web, it will be harvested by spammers. You can expect an order of magnitude or two increase in spam from having your email addy on a website. Unfortunately, there is no effective way to deal with this problem. One can regularly change the account that is used on a website, but that guarantees that folks that have kept the old addy will not be able to contact you with it. Best thing to do is grin and bear it... >The way Paula wrote her message I thought she wanted a way to send mail to >her. If she doesn't want a way to have visitors send her mail, don't post an >address. There are two ways to have a visitor contact you. One is thru a "mailto" link which is simply hyperlinking a graphic or text to your email address versus a web page, the other is thru a form and the users completed form is email to you. Publisher supports both of these. In both cases the email address is in the html code of the page. If a spammer has a tool to farm web pages reading html code for email addresses you'd can't stop that. It's best to just use an address dedicated to that use, an address not used for anything else. With something like 5 billion web pages out there and growing fast having your address harvested isn't really that big a problem imo. SignatureDavid Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > I am creating a web site for my work, a community garden. I do not want my > e-mail right out there, so I was thinking of making it an icon that you can > click and up comes an E-mail of something like that > Is this possible? Depends on how you define "problem". I get 200-300 spam emails each and every day, and I suspect web presence accounts for most. I view it as a cost of doing business, but it would be nice not to have to deal with it. >There are two ways to have a visitor contact you. One is thru a "mailto" >link which is simply hyperlinking a graphic or text to your email address [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >With something like 5 billion web pages out there and growing fast having >your address harvested isn't really that big a problem imo. I view it as such as well and wish the same. But I routinely switch the address being used before it reaches a number that high and becomes that kinda problem. -- David Bartosik - MS MVP for Publisher help: www.davidbartosik.com enter to win Pub 2003: www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx > Depends on how you define "problem". I get 200-300 spam emails each and every > day, and I suspect web presence accounts for most. I view it as a cost of doing [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >With something like 5 billion web pages out there and growing fast having > >your address harvested isn't really that big a problem imo. Yes, but if you are running a business, you want a long term stable email addy. Sure you can set any addy to forward to your main account, but customers will save your email addy, and if you rotate, the one they have may no longer work to contact you. >I view it as such as well and wish the same. But I routinely switch the >address being used before it reaches a number that high and becomes that >kinda problem. Businesses should use filters. Even more than you and I do as consumers. SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > Yes, but if you are running a business, you want a long term stable email > addy. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >>address being used before it reaches a number that high and becomes that >>kinda problem. Oh we do. My isp filters, then we filter here. Many still get through. >Businesses should use filters. Even more than you and I do as consumers. Too bad the spammers didn't develop filters intead of the crap they send us. SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > Oh we do. My isp filters, then we filter here. Many still get through. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >>Businesses should use filters. Even more than you and I do as consumers.
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