We're not a very big company - about 35 employees. I created an account for a new employee who wasn't due to start for 5 days and added his e-mail address to the company directory on our web site. In keeping with the <insert expletive here> corporate policy, the directory listings are not obfuscated (please don't ask why, it's lame). By the time the employee started and was in orientation with me to go over company applications the following week, he had already recv'd 9 spam messages (with many more blocked by Declude). So, conveniently it was a good time to go over Outlook's filters capabilities too.
Spams for Viagra and it's ilk have become the most annoying, most frequent complaint - even over the porn, beastiality, and Nigerian money scams. Anyway, enough of that tangent - the point is, bot traffic to our dinky lil ol' site is constant and we are harvested frequently. If you post your contacts, consider if they really have to be hot mailto tags, or could they at least be obfuscated. Just my 2 cents. -----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. --- [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.
