On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Smitty wrote:
> Both SLUG and FLALUG have list archives which are hyperlinked from the
> respective websites. The spam spiders crawl all the pages looking for
> links to email addresses. I have done something to fight back by placing a
> link to a bogus email address page on the menu which gives them lots of
> junk address and resultant floods of returns. The only thing I could do is
> eliminate the hyperlink and make it so that you would need to type the
> address in. But that is very inconvenient.
> So, you cannot blame nks.net for the list archives which I requested or the
> hyperlink which I created when I did the html for the list page.
> I suppose you could blame ME, but that would not be nice.
> Let's be nice.
What some list archives do is render the sender's address as a graphic.
That seems like a good compromise between security and disclosure to me.
Or, disguise the address by making each character a literal (I guess it's
called -- where "A" -> "A", "B" -> "B", ... "Z" -> "Z", etc.).
I've heard that's relatively spam-proof, but I have my doubts.
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