I manage both our public sites and our mail server, so I've consistent direct evidence of this harvesting. The quick workaround is to use JavaScript to display the addresses. Most bots won't bother to figure it out.
Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator VantageMed Operations (Kansas City) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan > Spangenberg > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Email addresses on a company webpage? > > > I've been reading the recent threads and someone mentioned it > a bad idea > to post employee email addresses on their company webpage because of > spammers or bots harvesting them. > Isn't this a little bit paranoid or am I just naive? Isn't it a pretty > common practice for a company to list emails addresses on > their webpage, > at least for sales and service individuals? I see many > smaller companies > doing this. Maybe they just take the risk and manage the spam when it > comes in, or change specific addresses if the spam gets too bad. > > Any alternatives to doing this? > How do they get the info to their customers if it isn't listed on the > webpage? > > Dan Spangenberg > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
