Thanks to everyone for the advice. I'm thinking there is no way to prevent anyone from getting emails from a guestbook. Both web pages are mine - the one at Bluehost and the one on freepages, & it is the same guestbook. I've tried other guestbooks in the past, but the freepages one is the most safe, by far, so I will put a note in it telling people to email me directly. I get spam, too, but it's not a big problem for me. The internet will probably never be 100% safe or free from bot email collecting. Ruth > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 05:35:57 -0400 > From: Jim Loudon<listadr@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Spambots and Guestbooks, WAS FREEPAGES-HELP > Digest, Vol 6, Issue 133 > To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Message-ID:<Pine.WNT.4.64.1108010404320.528@ybpnyubfg> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > If this is the URI of the guestbook in question: > > http://www.matherclan.com/guestbook.shtml > > the site is hosted by bluehost.com and not Rootsweb, thus the normal > advice you might get concerning Rootsweb Freepages may not apply, > although there is an apparently related page at: > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mather/guestbook.shtml > > The link to Rootsweb's guestbook script at matherclan.com should be > removed. Such a practice likely violates the Rootsweb TOS and/or AUP. > Hotlinking to someone else's domain is bad business, especially when the > other party discovers the link. > > I don't believe it's possible to suppress the listing of email addresses > using Rootsweb's guestbook script. You have to decide whether the > likelihood of exposing other people's email addresses to spammers makes it > worthwhile to continue with a guestbook. > > jim > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the FREEPAGES-HELP list administrator, send an email to > FREEPAGES-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the FREEPAGES-HELP mailing list, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 137 > ********************************************** >