Hello, please help... Re: spam proofing e-mail address...

Cielle

Hello there and thank you in advance for your help...

I have recently been told about what could be a brilliant way of spam proofing your e-mail address on your website... It uses PHP and it goes something like this:

<?php

a simple spam defense.

header("Location: yourname@yourserver.com");
exit;

This works, i have been told because the spammers with their robots which search through websites for e-mail addresses cannot find it beacause it is in PHP and something to do with the way PHP is parsed... ( some of you may have not heard about this spam defence?? If you have not, i give full credit for it to http://www.communistsquirell.com who gave me the information about it... )

Now this seems to work great and it opens a new page/window ( not a whole new window... ) with the outlook express system all ready to send out an e-mail ( once it has been filled in and the sender presses "send" ) to your e-mail address...

Once the e-mail is sent, the new page/window that has opened stays open and then is blank ( cause your e-mail program has now closed and been sent... ). I thought this may be a bad thing as many people could at this point become confused and leave your site ( people new to the web who are not aware of "back" buttons...!!!)

So my questions are:

1.Is there any way that i can have a "thank you for sending me an e-mail, please "click here" ( hyperlink taking you back to my main site or back a page... ) to get back to where you were" ON the actual page/window which opens so that they can see it and click on it AFTER they have sent the e-mail?

2.Also, is there any way that i can have the new page/window automatically "go back" after the e-mail has been sent so that they find themselves recognisably in my site again ( and not on a blank page where they have to press the "back" button on their toolbar...

I hope i have made my questions clear, and i would really appreciate it if someone could help me... If you need any further info, don't hesitate to ask, i will do my best, though i feel i have told you as much as i understand about it...

Thank you for your time,

Xenia Aidonopoulos

planetsim

To all those Poor People who cant use PHP. I feel sorry for them..

Cielle nice post. Hopefully spam will not be as annoying now for Webmasters if they dont use Hotmail.

Now to your question

why not have it do this

You have the Email to click on. It Goes to a page (In a new Window) You then use your code. They then send the email.

Now for the bit about the thankyou. I dont know of away from Outlook to a new page. So maybe a autoemail back to the person if your mail client has that to say thankyou

Cielle

Hi Planetsim and thank you for your responce...

Ok, so you mean get the "contact me" link on my website to open a NEW window right? ( using the target="_blank" code... ) I did that and that seems like a pretty good idea... That way after they have sent the e-mail they can see that they just have to close that window to get back to the rest of the site... I am just reitterating this to make sure i understood you correctly... Is this what you meant?

About the thank you... So that means that i can't actually get any written stuff on a page with PHP ( forgive my PHP ignorance... ). Is PHP a kind of language that connects different programs ? Ok, no problem about the "thank you", i mainly wanted it to be there so that it contained a hyperlink to take people back to the page they were on or my main page if they wanted to go back...

So yours is a brilliant idea 🙂, anyone else have any other brilliant ideas?

Thanks,

Cielle