On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:05:30PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > Obfuscation doesn't help, even if you use some rotating obfuscation. > > Most, if not all of these, can easily be broken by Perl Regexps. > > So any spammer just needs to add a few regexps to his bot and he will > > get all obfuscated addresses as well. > > But obfuscation is very annoying to regular users... they won't add > > these regexps to their mail clients so they can hit "reply", instead > > they'll have to fix you address on each reply. Annyoing.
I find wpoison (http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/) to be quite an efficient solution. All my pages always have that trap in the footer, so viewers are not annoyed and spammers seem to get enough trouble that those addresses I display haven't been harvested (so far, luckily, fingers crossed). /Y
