http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html Welcome to the Nebula Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:56:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html#comment-102 Tony Gravagno Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:40:47 +0000 http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html#comment-102 <p>You're 100% correct of course. There's no way to completely hide from the bad guys and of course there is no perfect solution. People harvest domain names in different ways and they pass the domain names they harvest to spammers who process the addresses in different ways. The thing I'm focused on here is that people seem to be attempting to munge their addresses as though they want to avoid spam, but the way they're doing it is ineffective. If someone is going to take any action, at least do it properly to make the effort partially effective.</p> You’re 100% correct of course. There’s no way to completely hide from the bad guys and of course there is no perfect solution. People harvest domain names in different ways and they pass the domain names they harvest to spammers who process the addresses in different ways. The thing I’m focused on here is that people seem to be attempting to munge their addresses as though they want to avoid spam, but the way they’re doing it is ineffective. If someone is going to take any action, at least do it properly to make the effort partially effective.

]]> http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html#comment-101 symeonb Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:12:05 +0000 http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html#comment-101 Thats all good advise - However Spam bots just send emails to a range of names at the domains they find, so if a harvester has got to your web page which has the domain your mails are on then it will send mail to webmaster@, sales@, accounts@, majordomo@ etc..   so for some of us (sys admins, or site owners etc)  it does not really matter that our mail address is out there, our spam blockers have to work hard anyway. Thats all good advise - However Spam bots just send emails to a range of names at the domains they find, so if a harvester has got to your web page which has the domain your mails are on then it will send mail to webmaster@, sales@, accounts@, majordomo@ etc..   so for some of us (sys admins, or site owners etc)  it does not really matter that our mail address is out there, our spam blockers have to work hard anyway.

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