Aqua-Soft ForumsDoes It Really Stop Spammers?
I've stopped doing all that spam prevention stuff. It's more of a pain for me and the reader. You have to really obfuscate it to prevent anything anyway. Like when people put riddles and alike in the address.
What I do is never use a "mailto" link though. This will stop the bots that just crawl links looking for mailto's (which is most of them). This doesn't make it harder to get my address either, so it's a nice compromise.
I dont get too much spam, maybe 20 a day from all my addresses (5). My spam filter catches every single one (99.9% of the time), so it's not bad.
If it gets unbearable, I'll switch addresses. That's why it's nice to have your own domain, very easy.
It stops bots from picking up your address (at least simple bots) some have options to search for ana at aps.com.
If I really care I would use:
hudson (NO SPACE) gardner /at\ earthlink (NO SPACE).net
yeah....
And...even though I use a major ISP (earthlink, local Time Warner Cable off shoot) I get 1-2 spam messages a month.
My email box is pretty clean. I really have no idea why that is, it could have something to do with all of the ports on my computer being stealth (my computer doesnt respond to pings and has a masked ip) or maybe because I am just lucky?
It defnitely isnt the address spacing thing, which I hardly use.
Just found this, something interesting to look at:
Originally posted by contrasutra@Jun 21 2004, 07:13 PMJust found this, something interesting to look at:
hmph... That is pretty nifty. 
yet in the source (see attached)
Muahaha, its hard to find my e-mail address with anything.
I can search for Relativity_17 on google and get results, but which one is really me...? 