Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:01:49PM -0400, Nick Cummings wrote:
but it looks to me like that puts your email address out there where it
can easily be picked up by spammers.
I just wrote about this the other day, so let me take the lazy way
out and quote myself. I was responding to the suggestion that people
should remove their addresses from mailing list and newsgroup traffic,
and I covered obfuscation tactics while I was at it.
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There are certainly lots of ways spammers can get your address, but I
think by far the biggest is putting your address on the web. My rate of
spam went from ~1/day to ~100/day after my address started appearing on
web sites and online pdfs.
-Derek
