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Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to'

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On 15 Mar 2019, Jim Nagel  wrote:
> Roger Darlington  wrote on 15 Mar:

>> In my Wildflowerfinder website I have put the following line for
>> readers who wish to contact me:
>> <a href="mailto:rogerarm@freeuk.com?subject=Submitted%3A%20Unknown%20W
>> ildflower%20Photograph&body=Where%20Found:%0A%0DDate%20Found:%20%0A">
> ...
>> How do I make it work for whatever e-mail client folk are using?
>> Does the code need to be 3 pages long to work?

> No need for "mailto" code or forms.  Since you have your own domain
> (wildflowerfinder.org.uk), why not just set up an address -- e.g.
> contact19a@wildflowerfinder.org.uk -- that you simply publish openly on
> your site.  The spambots will inevitably find it, but probably not for
> several months, whereupon you can just scrap that address and set up a
> different one.

> In the webhost's control panel, make this inital-contact address redirect
> to your "real" address.  Never publish the real address; you don't want
> spambots to see it.

> In your email client (Messenger Pro), you could filter such
> initial-contact messages to a designated folder.

> When you receive a genuine message via the initial-contact address, you
> can reply to that person from your real address.

OK, thanks Nigel.

That looks a simpler strategy.


-- 

Cheers
Roger
Where there's a Will, there's a Hey.

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HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-15 07:45 +0000
  Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-15 09:12 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-03-15 09:54 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-15 11:08 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-03-15 11:29 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2019-04-06 18:18 +0100
        Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-04-07 10:16 +0100
          Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2019-04-07 19:12 +0100
            Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-04-09 21:33 +0100
  Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-03-15 23:41 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-16 07:41 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-16 09:01 +0000
        Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 13:11 +0000
          Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Richard Darby <news@rjdarby.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 16:54 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 09:18 +0000
        Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-16 10:30 +0000
          Re: HTML code f / OT jammy Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 12:42 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-03-16 10:19 +0000
  Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2019-03-16 18:51 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alex Macfarlane Smith <nospam@archifishal.co.uk> - 2019-03-17 21:43 +0000

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