I was just about to post an idea, then i thought, it dont matter what you do if a spam bot gets your email address, which they always do, your going to get spam anyway.
So its best to just control it on your end. In the real world businesses in prime locations get bombarded with junk mail, so its just something we have to accept and try to block out with software. On 10/19/07, Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Taking a slightly different approach, any bot visiting your site knows > your domain name so at that point they don't need to find any addresses > to send to or from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, they'll likely assume that > things like [EMAIL PROTECTED] exist without you ever publishing an address > so obviously what we are trying to protect here are bots discovering > actual mailbox addresses. > > Therefore, never use actual email addresses and only ever one or 2 > generic addresses on a website. Use something like <a > href='mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>email us</a> and if it starts to > get spammed, change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and bounce [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you then needed a few different addresses on a site that appeared > across multiple pages, you could have a central config file on the > server that mapped addresses like: > > marketing = [EMAIL PROTECTED] > sales = [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > then when one of these starts getting spam, change it. > > It's only good for mailto links though and doesn't solve the problem of > publishing an address for people to save to their address books. It also > means when you click a mailto link the address in the message may look > strange to the user. I guess the other thing is if a user saves the > address and reuses it later it may bounce. > > Anyway, just an idea to try and tackle the issue differently. > > -- > Chris Knowles > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
