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How to stop your email addresses getting ripped from your website

Spammers use special software to go round websites, sucking up email addresses. Here's an effective way of stopping them:

HIDING EMAIL LINK USING JAVASCRIPT
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Instructions:
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1. For the text for the link, replace the 'showlink'
variable 'Email Me' with whatever text you want

2. The email variable in the script below is for an
email address:

yourname@yourhost.com

3 Replace the 'showname' variable 'yourname' with
the part of your email address which comes BEFORE
the @ symbol

4 Replace the 'showhost' variable 'yourhost.com' with
the part of your email address which comes AFTER
the @ symbol

5 Place the code in your HTML page where you want the
link to appear. If you are using a graphical WYSIWYG
editor, you will need to insert the code into the raw
HTML view, not the page view

6. Note - the long line starting 'document.write' must all be
on one line - with no break in the line.

The Javascript code
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<script language=javascript>
< !--
var showtag="@"
var showlink="Email Me";
var showname="yourname";
var showhost="yourhost.com";
document.write("<a href="+"mail"+"to:"+showname+showtag+showhost+">"+showlink+"</a>")
//-->
< /script>

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