As explained
elsewhere, you can make use of
Wpoison either
by installing a copy of
it on your own web server (and then making
hyper-links from your own web pages to your own installed
copy of
Wpoison) or else
you can make hyper-links to someone else's installed copy of
Wpoison. Note however
that in the latter case, it is polite to let the owner of the
installed copy of
Wpoison know, e.g.
via e-mail, that you plan to make links to his/her copy
before you do so.
In either case, linking to some installed copy of
Wpoison is entirely
trivial, especially if you are familiar with
HTML. (And if you aren't
then you probably shouldn't be messing around with
Wpoison in the first
place!)
Assuming that your local installed copy of
Wpoison is stored
as a file named
bait.foo and that it is located in the
eat-me subdirectory of your local
DocumentRoot directory, then an HTML
hyper-link to your local installed copy of
Wpoison could be
something as simple as just:
<A HREF="/eat-me/bait.foo"> </A>
Note that in this example, there is nothing, i.e. no text, no
images, no nothing, between the
<A> tag and the corresponding
</A> closing tag. That's perfectly
OK, even if it looks a little strange. (Most HTML authors are
accustomed to always putting something between the
<A> and the corresponding
</A>, but for our purposes here,
that really isn't necessary.)
Creating what amounts to anonymous hyper-links, as illustrated
above, is simplest way to incorporate hyper-links to
Wpoison into your
own web pages. It also has the advantage that these sorts of
anonymous hyper-links won't even be visible to any of the
human beings who might visit and view your web pages, although
automated web scanning robot programs will still see these
hyper-links.
At your option, you may want to put some stuff between the
<A>
and the </A>, in order to help
throw off the
address harvesting web crawlers
(just in case any of them evolve enough intelligence to avoid
empty hyper-links). If you elect to do that, then feel free to
put whatever you like in between the
<A> and the corresponding
</A> tag, including text,
<IMG...> tags, or any
combination thereof.
Ideally, you should make hyper-links (as described above) from as
many of your web pages as possible to some installed copy of
Wpoison. However
if you have a large and complicated web site, or one that is evolving
or changing frequently, this may be impractical. In such cases,
it may be sufficient to just insert hyper-links to
Wpoison into a few key
pages, in particular your site's home page as well as any pages
that contain links to pages that themselves contain actual/real
e-mail addresses that you would like to protect from harvesting.
If you want to create a link from your own pages to our
installed copy of Wpoison
located here on our server, you may do so simply by incorporating the
following snippet of HTML code into as many of your own web
pages as you like: