If you're a small company with 5 to 15 people, then it's not as bad as a company with hundreds of employees, or in the case of my client, thousands. Against our advice, they placed their entire directory online "for convenience of their customers" and it turned into a harvest festival for spammers. 90 days later their email system was nearly useless because of the volume of spam. Some employees were receiving over 1000 emails between the time they left work and the time they arrived in the morning. Then they tell us it's our problem to fix because it's our mail sever. (We charge per-mailbox, so we really don't mind if we have to fix their problems.)
Whatever email address you put on a web page should be generic, such as sales@ info@ support@ and so forth, and point those to the persons responsible. That way the employee-to-employee email stays clean. Besides, it's easier to rotate a generic email address through a department. And instruct employees to not use their company email addresses to send e-greetings or subscribe to newsletters. > 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 --- [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.
