@NevermoreMay 20.2003 — #Do es your server support PHP or Perl? If so, you could send email from the server to you without ever giving away your email address. Otherwise, I would recommend tagging the address. Check out the 'spam' section of [URL=http://www.evernet.co.uk/articles/secure.php]this page[/URL] for more information.
@GollumMay 20.2003 — #What I always do is go to hotmail or whatever your favourite free e-mail server is and create a new e-mail address like "[email protected]"
then you can splash this e-mail address around as much as you like without the danger of any of your 'real' e-mail addresses being compromised.
@web-eagleMay 20.2003 — #If you’re concerned about a spider finding your e-mail to put into a spammers’ database, I learned an interesting method of “hiding” it from most of them. It requires javascript, so it won’t work on the 10% of browsers who have JS disabled. But it’s a very simple elementary sort of defense.
Another idea we’re just now experimenting with is a sort of moving target. If you own the site, and can create/delete your own POP3 accounts, you can set up a new account periodically, put only that onto the site, and have it forwarded to your real address. That way, if spammers do find something on your site, it won’t be valid after your next account change. People can still send e-mail from the site, because the address is always current, but anything going into a spider’s list will be out of date very shortly.
As I said, this is just experimental for us right now, but it seems to be working. If it looks like something we want to keep doing, I’ll figure out some sort of SS script to make it automatic.
@ccoderMay 20.2003 — #You could even take things a step further and employ both the JavaScript that web-eagle posted and the encoding that Fang suggested. Use encoded strings for ename and ehost.
I did that in early 2002 when we moved to a new domain and it took about 14-15 months before I got a single spam. I'm guessing that they got my addy when I visited/purchased from some site.
@pyroMay 20.2003 — #Just remember that if you encode your email address with javascript, it will fail for the 10% who do not have javascript enabled. I personally would just swap out the @ (&#064? and the . (&#046? for an email something like this: <a href="you&#064;your&#046;com">you&#064;your&#046;com</a>