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--- On Thu, 8/6/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
A colleague quoted in an email "email spam from web crawlers is a
problem for you and your IT department, obfuscating email addresses
on your website turns your problem into a problem for your users".
Has anyone seen this or something similar?
Yes. I have several spam-trap addresses in my web pages and they do seem to
get hit often enough that I leave them there.
I use my own PHP-driven script forms for messages that I want to receive via a web site. However,
even this has been hit by spam (only 5 times). Users can specify only a message subject and
content. The "to" address is hard coded into the script - no variable (unlike some
popular "frommail" scripts).
There's also this which makes life a little harder on spammers...
http://www.spampoison.com/
Put the link on your website and they get endless pages of bogus email addy's
-- a lot at domains of known spammers.
Fun!
-Ben
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