If you are seeing this page, you clicked on the "Send Me Mail!" link on my home page. I want to be able to make that page available to people, and even to searchable web pages, but in such a way that a mailto link on the page does not lead to me getting tons of unwanted email spam. Therefore I am trying this goofy method.
Clicking the "Send Me Mail!" link only opens this page in a new window, but if you put your mouse over the link and DON'T CLICK IT you will note that the text in the status bar of your web browser changes! (This is the little bar usually on the bottom of your browser window that will show you the value of a URL if you put your mouse over a clickable link, etc.) If you look at the message in that status bar when your mouse is over the "Send Me Mail!" link, it displays a message showing an email address where I can be contacted.
If you open a new email message window (using whatever method you use to compose email) copy the address shown in the status bar into the To: field of that message, and then send it. It will get to me.
Why go to all this trouble? Because if my Home Page is viewable widely, an automated address harvester program can easily scan the source and look for all the "mailto:" tags in the message and add the target addresses to databases for unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) purposes. And I don't want receive spam simply because of making my web page available. I am not sure whether this technique I am using will work to defeat them all, but with luck it may confuse a less sophisticated trawler and keep my address off the spammers radar.
So, in short, just close this window and put your mouse over the "Send Me Mail!" link on my home page to view my email address in the status window! Thanks!