Help
for Church Webmasters
Issue
19 03/02/03
Once
your email address is on your webpage it is easy for harvesting programs to
grab it for use by email marketers, scam merchants, and worse. These unsavory
types run programs, sometimes call bots, which collect or harvest your email
address. Then you start getting junk mail and spam and it goes downhill from
there. One simple solution is to not put your email address on your webpage.
That’s very effective, but not very helpful to the visitors at your website
that want to get in touch with you. However, there are ways to hide your email
address on your webpage.
Here
are three suggestions that will help you hide your email address.
Please realize that none of these solutions are bullet proof, but
they will help lessen the flow of unwanted email. But if you are already on the
mailing lists, it’s too late. I suggest you get a new email
address and use one of these options to help protect it. Also, NEVER use your
personal email address on your church site – always use a different email
address for your webmaster email.
If you have a question or
something you are struggling with, let me know and I will see if it can be
covered in a future newsletter.
See ya,
Bill
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It would be way cool if you could
mention this resource somewhere on your web page! You can link to “Help for
Church Webmasters” at http://www.downeychurch.com/HelpForChurchWebmasters.html