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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. ur an idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that wat i think
    i got ur email bitch thanx a lot
    now it get posted all over
    F.U.

  2. Re:removethis by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: -1, Troll


    Yes, because someone might post it to a public forum.

    Of course, someone who is dumb enough to post his home phone number, his work phone number, and his wife's cellphone number to a page which he then links to slashdot deserves spam.

    dpovey@us.ibm.com
    dpovey@gmail.com
    dpovey@us.ibm.com
    dpovey@gmail.com
    dpovey@us.ibm.com
    dpovey@gmail.com
    dpovey@us.ibm.com
    dpovey@gmail.com

  3. Re:Try ASCII art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You got it wrong, since his web page is .edu mailto:sbrown@byu.edu