RE: Re: [OT] Massive spam increase recently?

["Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>]

Do those robots read what's displayed or the links?
I was thinking of putting small gif picture instead of e-mail address
and having it linked to mailto:joe.bloggs@xxxxxxx
Would that also attract spam?
Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 April 2003 12:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] Massive spam increase recently?


Spam is an increasing problem.

One of the biggest problem being the publication of e-mail addresses on
the web, and very often unintentional.

To highlight the problem, a simple search using google for

graham@xxxxxxx will give you an idea of where you e-mail address
can be obtained from. Also "unsbuscribing" from spam is one of
the worst
things you can do, it just confirms that the e-mail is indeed active.

I thought however that I'd share the following html with you

<TR><TD>Stuart Poulton</TD>
<td>Computing Staff</td>
<TD align=right><A
href="mailto:Stuart.Poulton.spam@xxxxxxx";>Stuart.Poulton</A></TD>
<TD Align=left>&#64;astro.le.ac.uk</TD>
<TD align=right>0116 223 1016</TD>
</tr>

The reason for the .spam e-mail is that this automatically add's +2
within the mailserver spam filter that I run, the use of 2 table cells
effectively breaks the e-mail address, it does however remain 100%
readable.

Cheers

Stuart