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May 12, 2005

Decrease College and University Spam in Less Than Five Minutes

By Max Kiesler

Most colleges and universities have an IT department that deals with incoming spam to your school. However, If you're a department or administrative webmaster you may have noticed you still get spam to the email addresses on your site. Or worse, administrators or professors complain to you that they do.

Here is a simple solution that any webmaster at almost any experience level can implement in just a few short minutes. If you view the source of your html pages do your email links look like the ones below?

a href="mailto:user@example.com" title="test"

If so, we have the perfect solution for you. The friendly developers at Automatic have been kind enough the develop an email address encoder that is incredibly easy to use. All you need to do is enter your email address; the link text; and the link title. There is an optional field where you can include an email subject if you wish. How much does this cost per email address? IT'S FREE! You can encode as many email address as you like.

Once you fill out the simple web form you will be pushed to the next page with a long piece of html code that will encode your email address from all spam bots. All you have to do is copy and paste this code into the same place your old email link was. That's it, you're done!

Don't forget to try out some of the other free tools at the site. Automatic is a full service software development company. They build web applications, electronic publishing tools, content management systems, and database driven websites with a focus on usability and standards-based design.

By Max Kiesler (Email) at 07:44 PM.



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