Spammers

David Taylor davidt at yadt.co.uk
Sun May 11 07:35:42 PDT 2003


On Sat, 10 May 2003, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sadly, it raises the bar above lynx users too.  I for one don't want to
have to go into X just to be able to find what e-mail address to report a
bug to :)

-- 
David Taylor
davidt at yadt.co.uk
"The future just ain't what it used to be"


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