Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:18:38 -0700 (PDT) |
A few years ago a study found that most SPAM is sent to addresses "harvested" from the web. Thus keeping an address off the web is a good way to reduce spam coming to it. To reduce SPAM, on my web pages I: o rarely use a "mailto://" link (the kind that sends email) since the "robots" that harvest email will pick upt the address o do not put addresses on the web in normal format (with and at sign) o I usually put addresses in an "obscured" format something like: fholson at cohousing.org fholson [at] cohousing.org fholson at cohousing dot org o Avoid addresses like info at cohousing.org or tours at cohousing.org which can use a common word for a username that be guessed by so called dictionary spam If you do want to use a "mailto://" you can use an address that requires manual fixing to work such as fholsonNOAPAM [at] cohousing.org and then instruct people to delete the capital letters. All of these require a bit of extra effort from the sender but are not as annoying as the whitelist procedures which I agree are very annoying **. BTW the archives of cohousing-L which makes web pages out of posts "obscure" addresses from the body of messages -- the sender's address is obscured using an image of an at sign. ** If someone requests assistance with their subscription in a way that requires me to "validate" my reply to get around their spam control, I typically take that as indication that they dont want my help very much and I drop the matter... Whitelists are very effective and controlling spam (that is effectively why cohousing-L rarely distributes SPAM), but they are a hassle for new correspondents. Fred list manager PS I'm trying to recruit my city councilor to live in the house next door to us but I'm still looking for others ... See Minneapolis, MN house avail. next door to Fred http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/msg26086.html -- Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Communications for Justice -- Free, superior listserv's w/o ads: http://justcomm.org My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm CST/CDT) Email: fholson at cohousing.org
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Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? Sharon Villines, June 28 2007
- Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? Muriel Kranowski, June 28 2007
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Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? Jeffrey Sullivan, June 28 2007
- Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? Robert Heinich, June 29 2007
- Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? Fred H Olson, June 28 2007
- Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? Marganne, June 29 2007
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Re: SPAM filter on Community's EMail Address? Sharon Villines, June 28 2007
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