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Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters?
pjp6259 writes "One of the common ways that spammers generate email mailing lists is by harvesting email addressess from websites. But in many cases you also need to make it easy for your customers to reach you. I have found three common solutions to this problem: 1.) Use an image to replace your email address. 2.) Use ascii encodings for some/all of the characters. 3.) Use javascript to concatenate and/or obfuscate your email address. Which of these methods are most effective? Are email harvesters able to interpret javascript? What do you use?"
IP geolocation and a shotgun.
Works for me.
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Yeah. Your lmergen il.com ['gma' in gap] is reallll professional. Jerk.
$6.21 is the number of the beast before sales tax. Meh.
Are you trying to say that Slashdot is a professional forum?
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My email contact consists of Egyptian hieroglyphics in one of those 3d art displays. First you gotta stare at it for a few minutes to have the objects pop out. Next its a trip to Egypt where you must follow clues to meet an old shaman. Use his clues to navigate though a snake infested pyramid. Find the one eyed pirate after defeating the octopus. you are rewarded with a postcard with my email address in a sack in sans script. Be sure to avoid the poison arrows and rolling rock on the way out. Spammers be dammed.
Put in plain sight: on your homepage which you submit to Google for indexing.
It's so obvious, they'd NEVER think to look there.
Thats why all my mailtos are "root@localhost" :)
I use a similar method, expect them they can only actually send me mail on the Summer solstice using a special machine buried in the mountains of India and must be used whilst standing upon a hill overlooking khafkas' pyramid wearing a blue apron.
When the light shines through the fascia of the machine it powers up for a few minutes and opens a connection which is bounced around my diamond CPU initiating the SMTP process.
If you get the timing incorrect then the suns rays will instantly vaporise you.
So far I haven't had much spam.
liqbase
baseball bat in hand. give me an address and a plane ticket and I'll solve our moral problem.
I added gvcormac@uwaterloo.ca to emailharvester.com for you :) as I've done all my friends and every e-mail I come across...
PS: Just kidding!
Excellent idea, it'd be ignored by humans and scripts alike.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
I took the liberty of visiting listopt.com and signed you up for about 100 different advertising newsletters. I sure hope you find them interesting.
Me too. bgates@microsoft.com
Thats your TA's address, isnt it ???
I figured all these cruel slashdotters would add you to spam lists, so to try to offset the damage, I went through my spam folder and used some of the 'unsubscribe' links for you. Hopefully this will lessen your damage.
:x
Dunno. I've always preferred info@telemarketing.com myself.
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Damnit, why did it have to be snakes?!
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
"That's why I'm a little annoyed at allofmp3.com at the moment, as I've supplied two email addresses to them on only two occassions, and both are huge spam recipients."
Just wait til you see what they do with your credit card number...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
I am glad you used the car analogy, I cannot understand new concepts without one.
Wait... I know you - you're Don Knuth!
(linkified because there's bound to be someone out there who just doesn't get it)