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.