On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:54:50 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by Kristofer Åberg to my mailbox:
> > > > what makes you sure that spammers did not arrive at your website, > > rather than this list? > > Our web site is built with Joomla (another great open source project) > which hides the e-mail addresses from spam bots - try shutting off > your JavaScript when viewing the site and you will not be able to see > the e-mail address. > http://floatingsun.net/articles/on-email-obfuscation/ If it looks like an email address it can be harvested. There is an option in Joomla! to not publish email addresses and i recommend this method, especially as there is a contact form. But aside from that, I have been on this list for several years and though the list may facilitate harvesting the best defence method AFAIK is to use an outbound and inbound address for emails to lists. Subscribe both addresses but never collect emails from the one that you send emails out on. Yes you loose emails addressed personally, but if you set reply-to munging to explicitly force replies to the list, then even this is reduced. It is a simple matter to set the server to drop all incoming mail to a given email address. My ISP is happy to let the mailbox accumulate emails which they purge periodically. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
