[Mimedefang] Obscuring email addresses on the web
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kd6lvw at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 6 17:27:00 EDT 2009
--- On Thu, 8/6/09, WBrown at e1b.org <WBrown at e1b.org> wrote:
> A colleague quoted in an email "email spam from web crawlers is a
> problem for you and your IT department, obfuscating email addresses
> on your website turns your problem into a problem for your users".
>
> Has anyone seen this or something similar?
Yes. I have several spam-trap addresses in my web pages and they do seem to get hit often enough that I leave them there.
I use my own PHP-driven script forms for messages that I want to receive via a web site. However, even this has been hit by spam (only 5 times). Users can specify only a message subject and content. The "to" address is hard coded into the script - no variable (unlike some popular "frommail" scripts).
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