Spammers

[Jim Mock]

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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