I think the technique of hiding(obfuscating) addresses has become a waste of time. For the last few years, the isp I use, was successfully using SpamAssasin to filter incoming spam. The interesting thing, was that most of the spam coming to my mail box, wasn't even using my actual mail address... there were all sorts of tricks they used to force mail to my box...mispelling names, guessing names, undisclosed recipients...yadda yadda yadda.

It finally got so bad, that the isp was wasting most of their processing power just filtering email, so they stopped using SpamAssassin and went to the "whitelist - verify-email required system".

It stopped the spam too, and probably is alot easier on their system.

If you are not on a whitelist. any mail is automatically responded too with a request for a human to respond". If no response is returned, the mail is deleted.

So in that system, if the spam harvesters get my email address, it dosn't matter, they need to respond before I see it. And they seldom do.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re: email address hiding by zentara
in thread email address hiding by sh1tn

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.