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- From: "Steve Sando" <steve AT mrlucky.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Spam warning
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:24:16 -0800
> "Talking" about websites this morning brought to mind something else
> related but worthy of mention. I find that I am getting a noticeable
> amount of spam addressed to all the <maillist>-request AT austinfarm.org
> addresses that are mentioned in mailto:s on the web page. It seems
> almost certain that bots are pulling these addresses off of web pages.
> So, my recommendation is that if you post an email address on your web
> page, be prepared to deal with the spam. My mailist request addresses
> are routed to a spamcop.net address that deals with it for me.
>
> If you need to post an email address, it seems that replacing "@" with
> " at " and "." with " dot " confuses the bots. So far.
>
Try this link:
http://www.siteup.com/encoder.html
It creates code that the bots don't read, they say.
In haste (with a nasty bug!),
Steve
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Spam warning,
Willie McKemie, 11/08/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Spam warning, Steve Sando, 11/08/2002
- Re: Spam warning, Willie McKemie, 11/08/2002
- Re: Spam warning, Liz Pike, 11/08/2002
- Re: Spam warning, Willie McKemie, 11/09/2002
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