Re: E-mail addresses in FAQs--SPAM bait?

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Henning Klaskala (bm321465@muenchen.org)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:58:46 +0100 (MET)

Neyir Cenk Gokce wrote:
> Granted it is not a full mailto: tag,
> it nevertheless is prone to be "harvested" by spam-bots.

There are several sites that convert FAQs to HTML automatically.
You can expect that a mailto: tag will be added to each address
in your FAQ...

> Does anybody have an idea about the effectiveness
> of html harvesters' parsing of e-mail addresses from web pages?

I try to reduce their effectiveness with links to spam bait pages.
Note the spam bait link in my signature.
Let's hope that spammers' address lists will overflow with fake
addresses... :-)

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Henning Klaskala
bm321465@muenchen.org


Spambait: http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/100/112059/Addr.html