Spammers
Jim Mock
mij at soupnazi.org
Sun May 11 00:34:49 PDT 2003
On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 02:56 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Scott A. Moberly wrote:
>> suggestion for display of ports web-side
>>
>> s/@/ at /g
>>
>> or someother obscure mix???
>
> Anything that you can visually identify and decode with minimal
> effort, spammers can (and probably already have) as well. For
> instance, "foo at bar dot com" is well known to be totally useless. It
> would help if people who want to contribute to this thread did some
> research first. :)
>
> One thing that does seem to work for personal web pages is to put your
> email address in a graphic. That at least raises the bar quite a bit.
A few weeks ago, I started using the entity for @ (#&64;) on my site,
and the amount of spam I've received since then has been quite a bit
less than it used to be. I suppose it could be a coincidence though :-)
- jim
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