I don’t believe that you are paranoid, Peter. Spam is a gross waste of our
time and the world’s energy, not to mention the immorality of the criminal
element. I do my level best to keep my email addresses off publicly available
pages, as well as reporting spam to spamcop.net <http://spamcop.net/>.
When I make websites, the email addresses are graphics, as you plan.
Chris
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> On 18 Dec 16, at 01:15, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Possible reasons for the increase in volume:
> - A friend posted my old email on Facebook, with their privacy set to Public
> rather than Friends.
> - The "mailto" link on my Web site was harvested.
> - I may have mistakenly "unsubscribed" from a spammer rather than the
> department store from whom I'd recently made a purchase.
> - One of my mailing lists was crawled by a bot. For example, note that this
> list's Web interface shows our addresses in clear text. Not good. The LUG at
> least substitutes "at" for "@"
>
> I don't think I'm being paranoid. Here's a cautionary tale:
> <http://stateofthenet.net/2014/09/how-one-simple-mistake-turned-me-into-a-spam-magnet/
>
> <http://stateofthenet.net/2014/09/how-one-simple-mistake-turned-me-into-a-spam-magnet/>>
>
> The guy who wrote the story in the link above doesn't use mail server-level
> spam filtering, because it might filter out a potential or real client. Most
> ISPs have such filtering, and most of us use it. That's our first level of
> protection. You could be getting spammed just as hard as I am, but be
> completely unaware because your ISP has "shields up."
>
> For the stuff that gets through the mail provider, we have third-party
> security programs on our computers, and anti-spam and learning features in
> our email clients. Combine those three things, and you have a good solution
> most of the time. Lose one of them, and you will be spending a lot of time
> checking piles of spam for the occasional legit email.
>
> Anyway, I will only have to put up with this spam barrage for a while longer.
> Then the old address will be terminated, and I will have two emails, this
> gmail for commercial relationships and email lists, plus a personal email.
> Both will have server-level spam filtering.
>
> If you're interested, here is the results of a German fellow's experiment. He
> set up a Web site with nine different email addresses, one in clear text, the
> rest obscured in various ways. Then he waited a year and a half and posted
> how much spam each one received.
> <http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/
>
> <http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/>>
> Based on those results, I'm changing the Mailto link on my site to a graphic.
> It couldn't hurt...
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