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I hate spam, too. More than 70% of our emails are from
spammers. It was so much spam that some times the
sales by accident deleted customer's emails and thought
that was from spammer. One thing that everyone can
help to stop spam is never follow any link in spam emails.
To curb the spam situation, maybe we could put the
email address in a gif file or jpg file, so that to human it
is readable, but to computers it means nothing at all.
Best regards,
Wayne
At 09:08 AM 4/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>About half of my e-mail is spam. This applies to nearly all the accounts
>I have not just the ones I use for contacting me in webpages. Most of
>it is in a character set I can't read.
>
>/. recently had an article about spambots.
>
>http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap/
>
>Spambots ignore the robots.txt file and scan webpages for "mailto:";
>and '@' to find e-mail addresses. The article suggests changing
>mailto: and machine readable e-mail addresses to a format
>requiring human intervention (eg foo_at_bar_dot_com).
>
>For postings to the LVS mailing list that I put in the HOWTO, I include
>the person's name, e-mail address and date. The e-mail address is included
>to help identify the person and to make it easier to track them down (eg
>write to them, look up the original posting on the list archive).
>
>Does anyone think that this policy should be changed, either by munging the
>e-mail addresses or by leaving them out? Anyone got any idea whether they
>get any more spam from having their e-mail address on a website?
>
>Thanks Joe
>--
>Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
>contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center,
>mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA
>
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