CombatingSpammers

Combating Spammers    (F7)

See: WikiSpam    (ADV)

Here are some ways to avoid getting your e-mail address "harvested" by spammers:    (F8)

• Dr. Mark Frautschi wrote Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:46:36 -0400:    (F9)

• 1. Ask all participants to list their e-mail addresses in the following format;    (FA)

• 2. Embed something like the following link "high up" at all branch level directories.    (FC)

• I would recommend that you replace the notice, which is written in HTML with a JPEG snapshot of the same. The JPEG would be human readable, but not machine (ie bot) readable. Further, if the JPEG file name and the matching link reference were random, the presence of this disclaimer will not tip off net week's release of the bot software.    (FE)

• 3. Some people use an image (as most machines won't read that properly) rather than text, whenever a email address needs to appear on a web page, for example: (--ppy/2004.07.12)    (FF)
• using this: <--this is an image of the email address, and generally, not machine readable]    (FG)
• instead of this: <your.name@yourcompany.com> <--this is the email address in text, and is machine readable]    (FH)