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    • webmaster*at*mcshaffry.com

      Hey Mr. Mike

      I sent you an email on "20 Sep 2003", and just got back a message that said it couldn't find the mailbox.

      Anyway, here is the part of the message that still applies:



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      I may have a little tip that could help you. I noticed the
      email address on your site (webmaster*at*mcshaffry.com) uses a
      spam protection method of using the following characters *at*
      inside of your e-mail address instead of the @ symbol. While
      this works, there are also other methods which are not
      misleading to regular users and also allow you to keep the
      email address clickable.

      The best method is by using the following text in your source code:

      <a href="&amp;#109;&amp;#97;&amp;#105;&amp;#108;&amp;#116;&amp;#111;
      &amp;#58;&amp;#119;&amp;#101;&amp;#98;&amp;#109;&amp;#97;&amp;#115;
      &amp;#116;&amp;#101;&amp;#114;&amp;#64;&amp;#109;&amp;#99;&amp;#115;
      &amp;#104;&amp;#97;&amp;#102;&amp;#102;&amp;#114;&amp;#121;&amp;#46;
      &amp;#99;&amp;#111;&amp;#109;">&amp;#119;&amp;#101;&amp;#98;&amp;
      #109;&amp;#97;&amp;#115;&amp;#116;&amp;#101;&amp;#114;&amp;#64;&amp;
      #109;&amp;#99;&amp;#115;&amp;#104;&amp;#97;&amp;#102;&amp;#102;&amp;
      #114;&amp;#121;&amp;#46;&amp;#99;&amp;#111;&amp;#109;</a>

      It uses Unicode characters to stop the spammers, but will display
      like following in a browser:

      webmaster@mcshaffry.com

      Which will make it much easier for your visitors to e-mail you. I'm
      not sure if you knew about this or not, but I thought I would let
      you know anyway just in case. Also there is a program that will
      automatically make the conversion for you and it's 100% free.

      ... OK I'm talking too much I'll just give you the program
      description that I grabbed from shellcity.net :

      E CLOAKER.......... E_Cloaker 2.0 is a simple utility that converts
      the characters of email addresses and text into browser-readable
      Unicode, making it more difficult for spam extractor 'bots to harvest
      email addresses from your web page.....(free).....GO THERE!

      That's all, hope it helped and you haven't fallen asleep,

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