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Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-the-addresses-are-high-as-an-elephants-eye dept.

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?"

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  1. SpamGourmet.com by gumpish · · Score: 5, Informative

    SpamGourmet.com

    Makes it trivially easy to create a unique forwarding address for any website you care to visit, then set the domain of that site as an exclusive sender for that address.

    If a 3rd party starts spamming you at that address, Spam Gourmet just drops it, but continues to deliver relevant mail.

    Oh, and it's completely free.