At 4:04 AM -0600 3/12/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:At 11:30 PM +0000 3/11/04, Telcontar wrote:
What I have done, though, is set my address to contain HTML entities. I don't see any reason why spammers could possibly be fooled by that trick now, but still.
Feh.
I did a test on that some months ago after someone brought that idea up again in one of the other lists.
Test addresses were built with various portions encoded, including one which even had the "mailto:"; part encoded.
Guess what? They all received spam. They all received the same spam. Granted, not as much as an address in plain text on the same page, but close enough to prove to me that it wasn't worth the effort.
Guess what? It was I who set up a test page with encoded email addresses and not one of mine has received any spam. (There is an un-encoded 'control' address on the same page which has.) The site containing the page is routinely spidered by search engines to which I submit it and, I have to assume, spammer bots.
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The page in question is not visible to the casual web visitor so I tend to believe that most of the above are robots of some sort, regardless of the User-Agent specified.
And it was your report that prompted me to do my own experiment.
Mine is linked to by a single period tucked away on our default page, so the same crawlers which would find the rest of the site will also find it (ie, real world conditions). And they do. The page in question is not submitted to any search engines, though of course our site is.
So, YMMV.
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