ann
21-10-2005, 02.16 pm
These forums are visited by the search engines' bots, which means that the people can see the topics and messages and come in here to read them.
It also means that other, nasty bots can come in and harvest links to web pages and e-mail addresses. These are then used for e-mail spam and Trackback spam, both of which are bad news for the internet as a whole.
Please, do your bit to prevent this by not placing the URL of web pages, or the text of e-mail addresses, in either the body of messages or in your sig lines.
Instead, use masking text in the message or your sig, and the link tags to make that masking text a link to the URL or the e-mail address.
How to do this in a message
Type the masking text in your message, which may be something like 'go to this page'.
Select the text 'this page' and then click on the Link icon above the message text. The link icon is the one tha looks like a globe with two links of a chain. Don't include any verbs in the selected text. This is unfriendly to screen readers used by people with sight impairment.
In the dialogue box that opens, type in the URL for a web page, or paste it in if you have it on your clipboard. for an e-mail address, type mailto:name@domain.
Test your link by Previewing your post before submitting it.
The process in sigs is similar.
It also means that other, nasty bots can come in and harvest links to web pages and e-mail addresses. These are then used for e-mail spam and Trackback spam, both of which are bad news for the internet as a whole.
Please, do your bit to prevent this by not placing the URL of web pages, or the text of e-mail addresses, in either the body of messages or in your sig lines.
Instead, use masking text in the message or your sig, and the link tags to make that masking text a link to the URL or the e-mail address.
How to do this in a message
Type the masking text in your message, which may be something like 'go to this page'.
Select the text 'this page' and then click on the Link icon above the message text. The link icon is the one tha looks like a globe with two links of a chain. Don't include any verbs in the selected text. This is unfriendly to screen readers used by people with sight impairment.
In the dialogue box that opens, type in the URL for a web page, or paste it in if you have it on your clipboard. for an e-mail address, type mailto:name@domain.
Test your link by Previewing your post before submitting it.
The process in sigs is similar.