I have a spamtrap address on my home page. I put it in very small text at the bottom
of the page after a bunch of whitespace. I set the font color to the same as the
background, including the mailto: link. Here's what I have:
Do not send mail to this address or nasty things will happen: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I also thought about the possibility of the spammers "removing all 'spam' addresses",
which is why I went with 'strap' instead of 'spamtrap'.
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:34:29PM +0100, Jim Ford is rumored to have said:
> Hi,
>
> If I set up a spamtrap account to seed any postings to the NGs I use, or any
> web pages I might create, I would need to make it obvious to human readers
> that it is not to be used - eg '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' etc..
> Hopefully then, a spammer's email harvester will pick the address up and when
> they spam me, procmail will report them to Razor. But the obvious thing for
> a spammer to do would be to delete any addresses in his DB that contain the
> string 'spam' - I would think that they would do this as a matter of
> routine. The point is, that whatever you do to show to human readers that it
> is a spam trap address, a spammer can anticipate and filter out - or the
> harvester ignore. Am I missing something here?
>
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