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Contact Admin e-mail address in graphics

As the "Contact Admin" e-mail address is linked in text, we receive several dozen of spam mails daily.
This is due to the fact that e-mail spiders can easily find this address.

I recommend instead of linking to the actual e-mail address, when a user clicks on the "Contact Admin" link, a pop-up window to come-up displaying the e-mail address in graphics, along with a short suggestion on the proper procedure the user must follow for sending the message.
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or just an e-mail form
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In my dynamic header and posts I use this email address scrambler code.
It seems to be pretty effective.
Be sure to check out the innerpeace.org web site for 3 different ways to implement this code.
Note: As forum Admin you can use html in posts so you surround the script with html tags
[html]...script data....[/html]

<!--EScrambled Email Address Code-->
<!--For help with this code go to-->
<!--http://innerpeace.org/escrambler.shtml-->
<script>
<!--
function escramble(){
var a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i
a='<a href=\"mai'
b='volunteers'
c='\">'
a+='lto:'
b+='@'
e='</a>'
f=''
b+='innerpeace.org'
g='<img src=\"'
h=''
i='\" alt="Email us." border="0">'

if (f) d=f
else if (h) d=g+h+i
else d=b

document.write(a+b+c+d+e)
}

escramble()

//-->
</script>
<!--End EScrambled Email Address Code-->
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I know there exist web crawlers that are able to interpret javascript and follow resulting links.
I do not know the extend these are avialable to the public, though.

Since it seems there does not exist any intend for having this ability built-in, I will have to do it manually using the .net gdi:(((
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The contact admin link is in the header, so if you do not like it because it is causing spams, you can remove it. The software already has a email function that uses a form to prevent spammers to get addresses.
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