How Does the E-Government No Spam Zone Work?
The No Spam zone from E-Government works very well according to people who use it. A person’s email address is placed into a secure database and never displayed on a web page. How secure is the saved email address? The security level is the same as used to protect credit card information. Let’s use a “Guest Book” page as an example. Jane Doe’s guest book entry includes her email address, jane@aol.com, in addition to her name and comment. After being approved by an administrator Jane’s guest book entry includes a link “Email Jane” in addition to her comment. What’s changed you might ask. Without getting overly technical lets look at two examples. The next line is a conventional email link: Email Jane Pass your mouse over the above link and look at the status bar toward the bottom of your browser window. What you see there is exactly what a spam robot sees, Jane’s email address. Email Jane Now let’s take a look at the new way. First, there is a link that l
