In any case, I highly doubt spam harvesters follow robots.txt
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brian
On Sunday, April 29, 2018, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg(a)freephile.com>
wrote:
There are ways to combat bots, both on-list with
configuration like
*obscure_addresses*, and through the process of archiving. [1]
Decent email providers like GMail do a great job of filtering spam for the
end user. Others like Comcast or Verizon do not.
There are many ways that the end user can help themselves. For example,
use a list-specific address through plus-addressing or sub-domain
addressing. [2]
[1]
http://www.emailarchivestaskforce.org/documents/email-tools/ lists
dozens of archiving systems
[2]
https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html
Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org
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