And yes, Apple Mail is the best way to defend against spam (junk mail). It has an awesome spam filter system.
Shane Helm
{ sonzeDesignStudio™
On Jul 7, 2004, at 12:51 AM, Justin French wrote:
On 06/07/2004, at 10:50 PM, Neerav wrote:
I havent tried this, but it sounds interesting
http://www.phoenity.com/newtedge/hide_email_spambots/
As soon as a new "technique" for hiding email address' becomes widely publicised, then *everyone* knows about it. Yes, that includes the makers of spambots.
All they'd need to do is crawl linked stylesheets looking for "content: ...;", and then realise that \40 is an @ symbol, and hey presto, they've found another set of email address'.
Seriously, there is no way to avoid spam if you plan on making your email address public on a webpage -- plain and simple. if you have a way to encode it, they'll find a way to decode it. To live in the myth that we, the humble web developers, are smarter than hundreds or thousands of super-geeks writing spambots to fuel their BILLION DOLLAR industry is ludicrous.
Yes, they could decode and read javascripts, yes they could read linked style sheets, yes they can attempt to detect text inside images and yes they can beat whatever else you can come up with.
The ONLY fail-safe method of hiding your address from spambots is to NOT PUBLISH IT, which means you need a contact form which only lists names or nicknames of staff members... matching that name to an email address is done server-side with PHP (or Perl/ASP/CFM/et al).
Even then, it's not much of a stretch to imagine a spambot parsing the form and guessing email address' based on the names in the form, combined with the domain name.
As said earlier in the thread, spam is best defended with filtering at the receiving end -- I get 50-100 spam messages a day (in addition to the ones caught by my host server-side), of which Apple Mail catches about 98%.
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
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