-----It appears that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, on 20030323 5:22 AM: >Comments or advice would be welcome.
Jean-Pierre, Your filtering/redirect scheme sounds very good (and reflects the underlying logic and functionality of a well-made email application), but what strikes me is that it is a "back-end" solution only, and those nasty spammer DO HAVE your eddress nonetheless. What I'd like to know is WHY you are getting the spam in the first place. I see the spam start to pour in as soon as I register a domain name, or put my eddress on a page as webmaster or whatever. While it's probably hard to avoid the eddress-selling that certain vendors practice, I have lately been trying to follow this simple rule WHENEVER I want to put an email link (or even a non-link eddress reference) into a web page: Encode all the characters of the eddress, both in the link and in the link description. This should make robots and eddress-harvesters skip over it, never recognizing it as an email address. (There are various ways to encode, but, using one method, the HTML code for a link to me, for example, would be: <a href="mailto:dan@danfeat her.com">dan@da nfeather.com</a> ) [BTW, if anyone would like an AppleScript that will perform this operation, let me know and I'll post it. And, if you're using OS X, there's a handy little utility that makes doing this a snap. It's called SpamStopper, and it's available at www.railheaddesign.com. ] I've let my eddresses (un-encoded) get about the 'net for far to long to make a good judgement whether or not this makes a lot of difference, but I'd be curious to know what happens to an eddress that is NEVER posted anywhere or put on any webpage UNLESS it is completely encoded. Cheers, Dan Feather + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Dan Feather [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615-385-2812 AppleScript solutions for Macintosh applications Website and product development and testing Desktop publishing and prepress services + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
