>From http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
" Major Findings Our analysis indicated that e-mail addresses posted on Web sites or in newsgroups attract the most spam. Web Sites - CDT received the most e-mails when an address was placed visibly on a public Web site. Spammers use software harvesting programs such as robots or spiders to record e-mail addresses listed on Web sites, including both personal Web pages and institutional (corporate or non-profit) Web pages. CDT tested two methods of obstructing address harvesting: Replacing characters in an e-mail address with human-readable equivalents, e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" was written "example at domain dot com;" and Replacing characters in an e-mail address with HTML equivalents. E-mail addresses posted to Web sites using these conventions did not receive any spam. " ObCygwin: This relates to and confirms some of the information on the cygwin website so it's not too off-topic! <g> (http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR) ObCygwin: Oh, alright then. Index: acronyms/index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/cygwin/htdocs/acronyms/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.83 diff -u -p -r1.83 index.html --- acronyms/index.html 2 Sep 2004 16:34:42 -0000 1.83 +++ acronyms/index.html 23 Sep 2004 11:21:46 -0000 @@ -450,7 +450,11 @@ Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quot Some mailers include the raw e-mail address in the "<i>Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:</i>" line. The web archives for the mailing lists are publicly available. -<b>Let's not feed the spam harvesters!</b><br> +<b>Let's not feed the spam harvesters!</b> (Some people doubt that munging +addresses actually works, but for proof that spam harvesters don't try to +decode even the simplest anti-spam measures such as replacing @ with AT and +. with DOT, see <a href="http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml";> +http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml</a>).<br> Of course, there may be other raw e-mail addresses in messages, <i>e.g.</i>, in signatures, but that's the choice of the person sending the message.<br> <a href="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01565.html";>Coined</a> by _Now_ is it on-topic? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
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