On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Allan Atherton wrote: > I later heard that there were programs (spam robots, spambots) that scanned > the internet for web pages with exposed email addresses and harvested them > for spammers. After Insight changed to its new ISP (ATT?) with their > different servers, I read a tip about how to hide your email address by > making a link to it. So I used "Email Me" and linked it to my address. Since > then I have not had any spam. Maybe it was due to filters in the servers, > but I like to think it was my hidden email address.
Very weird. Was pretty sure that scrapers still scraped the mailto: bit. People usually seem to put their address as 'me at blah dot com' and not do mailto: if they want to avoid being scraped. Hen The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
