Please, when you reply to an email on this list, please eliminate the "from" email address from the text before you send it. All of these emails are posted online and little robotic spiders crawl thru the pages looking very specifically for emial addresses to use for spam. After a while of this you start getting more and more and more spam. Up to now my spam leven with my yahoo email has been very low. Even tho the archiving software does the service of slightly altering the format of the email a spider can probably change it back and harvest it the same.
Am I wrong about this ?
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:02:09AM -0700, Karl Wick wrote:
Please, when you reply to an email on this list, please eliminate the "from" email address from the text before you send it. All of these emails are posted online and little robotic spiders crawl thru the pages looking very specifically for emial addresses to use for spam. After a while of this you start getting more and more and more spam. Up to now my spam leven with my yahoo email has been very low. Even tho the archiving software does the service of slightly altering the format of the email a spider can probably change it back and harvest it the same.
Am I wrong about this ?
Obscuring email adresses doesn't really work. Spammers probably already have bots that can defeat every popular method of obscuration, and it makes live more difficult to humans.
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