dddennis@concentric.net wrote: > > Can anyone offer any sugestions as to how to prevent spamers from > "harvesting" email > addresses from our sites? I'd like to continue to offer a clickable email > link to myself and others on my sites but I'm considering trying a graphic > link to our email instead due to the large amount of spam I'm receiving. > That would force user's to type in the address manually and would still not > help on GenConnect Sites. Any html solution would be very helpful if > possible, even if it was not totally sucessful. David, I don't think the graphic links will help you get less spam. Once you get on someone's list, whatever you are doing or not doing won't make a bit of difference. I've just recently changed email address, and have been laboriously changing out from the old to the new on all my GC boards -- over a hundred of them. Yet I have hardly any spam at all. When I go back to my previous address (I was pre-paid) just to pick up on anyone I forgot to notify, guess what's waiting in my mailbox? You're right, a bunch of spam. They sell the addresses to one another, and it just keeps spreading. To keep this new one relatively clean, I'm using the free filtering service at Brightmail.com . It works very well, and has caught all the spam and viruses sent my way (6, in a month), and no "good" mail, at all. Useful, free -- how can by beat that!? http://www.brightmail.com Hope this helps, Valorie Zimmerman Black Diamond, Washington USA