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This "Advanced Email Link Generator with Anti-Spam Encoder" was first referenced in an article printed in Will Master Possibilities issue # 74 on December 19, 2000. For more info, please read the article. The "Advanced Email Link Generator with Anti-Spam Encoder" will generate mailto: links you can copy and paste into your web pages and emails. The Anti-Spam Encoder is an encoding scheme designed to cloak email addresses from spammer's email harvesting robots, yet be visible and readable for your site visitors. Fill in only those form fields that are applicable for your application. Advanced Email Link Generator with Anti-Spam Encoder: |
This link generator, written entirely with HTML and
JavaScript, can create sophisticated mailto: links for
you. You just fill in the form and click the button.
mailto: links, for those who are unfamiliar with them, are similar to http: links except they open up a new
email message page in your visitor's email program instead of a new web page in their browser.
The usual mailto: link fills in the "To:" address of the
email's header. This Advanced Email Link Generator allows
you to generate links that may also fill in:
~~ The "CC:" address in the email's header.
~~ The "BCC:" address in the email's header.
~~ The "Subject:" line of the email.
~~ The body text of the email.
The "To:", "CC:", and "BCC:" fields can each have multiple
email addresses separated with a comma.
For Subject: and email body text, do not use any "?", "&",
or "=" characters. Those characters tend to confuse some
email programs, discarding all text beginning at the first
occurrence -- even when those characters are encoded with
hex values.
Not all email programs will pre-fill in each of the above
fields. Most will.
Some email programs will not pre-fill in the email's body
text even if it might accept the others listed above. Also,
some email programs that will pre-fill in body text will
nevertheless refuse to insert line breaks that you might
specify. Thus, it may be prudent to keep body text in one paragraph.
The drawback to using this type of advanced email link is
that not you don't know ahead of time what your visitor's
email program capabilities are. Even so, it doesn't hurt
to specify the advanced fields you desire; the email
programs that won't pre-fill just won't.
So go ahead and make your preferred email link (demo page URL is below). The only required form item is "To:"
The Advanced Email Link Generator generates both
1. an HTML link for web pages and HTML emails. It
can be a text link or the
generator will insert
a placeholder for an image, and
2. a link for plain text emails.
The generated links can be copied and pasted into your emails and web pages.
Anti-Spam Encoder:
The Anti-Spam Encoder uses the ISO-Latin-1 codeset to
encode the generated URLs for hiding your email address(s)
from most, if not all, spammer's email harvesting robots.
Even text links containing email addresses can be encoded
to cloak them from harvesting robots, yet be visible and
readable for your site visitors.
To employ the Anti-Spam Encoder simply check the box on the
form.
Once there, you can use the form on-line.
Or, you may prefer to save the page to your hard drive
for off-line use. Once saved to your hard drive, simply
double-click on the file name, or drag the saved file into your browser window or browser's icon.
Have fun thwarting spammers. And may your mailto: links
never be the same!
Copyright 2000 William Bontrager
Programmer/Publisher, "WillMaster Possibilities" ezine
http://willmaster.com/possibilities/
mailto:possibilities@willmaster.com