That will work - for a time. As the harvesters get more sophisticated, they'll look for that code. Those numbers are nothing more than the ASCII decimal values of the letters. Riddler needs to come up with something that will be encrypted. Or, scrambles each individual's address randomly where the only key to the sequence is on the Riddler server. John Slaughter In loving memory of our son, Brennan. 11/10/88-5/31/01. http://john-slaughter.rootsweb.com/Brennan.html MA-Bay-Colony list moderator USGenWeb County Coordinator Essex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maessex Middlesex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamiddle USGenWeb Town Coordinator Ipswich, Essex, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macipswi >From: "Debbie Owen" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] ROOTSWEB-HELP Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11 >Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:04:57 -0600 > >Hi Everyone, > >I just found an online tool to help us keep our own email addresses from >being taken from our websites by spammers. Here is a description of the >tool: > >Email Riddler is an online tool that encrypts and transform your email >address into a series of numbers when displaying it, making it virtually >impossible for spam harvesters to crawl and add your email to their >list. > >I have tried it on several on my websites. Here is one that is using it. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcbonse/ > >Scroll all the way to the bottom to see it. View the source and you >will see my address is nowhere to be found. ~Debbie > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe [email protected] from the list, please send an >email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get free, personalized commercial-free online radio with MSN Radio powered by Pandora http://radio.msn.com/?icid=T002MSN03A07001