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

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:19:15 -0600 (CST)

# 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...

And your point is ? These sites are not a problem; the fact that there
are vaild mailto addresses there is not a problem.

Spammers can harvest Usenet messages much easier.

# > 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... :-)

A waste of time. Time to put this topic to bed on this list. Night!

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