email and spam

taff — Sat, 08 Sep 2001 14:36:16 +0000

I keep my email quite separate - personal and business.

My business email address(es) are all over the web in various directories, forums, site credits, webmaster links, etc. My personal email address is nowhere.

I get virtually no spam via the business accounts yet my personal account is inundated with it. Go figure.

Having said that, I'd rather run the risk of collecting some spam than make clients and potential clients jump through hoops to contact me.

The delete button is an effective spam control tool.

Re: Spam from Webmaster Forums signatures?

Mark Hensler — Fri, 07 Sep 2001 18:27:13 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by ravijp
Actually, one of the things that I'm worried about is bots getting my email id's from my signatures from my webmaster forum posts.

Any ideas anyone?

Solution: Don't post your email addy. That is the only place that it's posted on the site. People always have the option of using the online form to email you.

Spam from Webmaster Forums signatures?

ravijp — Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:19:01 +0000

Actually, one of the things that I'm worried about is bots getting my email id's from my signatures from my webmaster forum posts.

Any ideas anyone?

The bots seem to be able to convert Unicode (&6795) back to email id's. I've tried that before.

And bots could always parse your document.write script to get your email address.

There is, however one other way, which I will discuss once I can make an example available online.

Regards,

Ravi

Keegan — Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:13:11 +0000

Thank you for that ravijp

Mark Hensler — Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:55:27 +0000

Who's to say that the spiders can't parse document.write tags?

mairving — Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:43:39 +0000

Here is another way of spam-proofing your email address. Basically all that it does is convert your email address to character entities (something which you could do yourself). So that a spammer will pick up something like &#065 instead of the letter a.

I really don't worry about it much myself. Junk mail goes to hotmail and my other one has a pretty developed filtering system (ie anything from @msn.com goes in the trash).