Kill All Spammers
I love it. Spam advertising products to cut down on spam. The guy even says
my address was harvested by a robot and says where it came from (sadly, from a
post I made to an open development list before I learned to obscure my email
address). On the one hand, it'd be great if all spammers told you exactly
where they got your address, but then, it'd also be great if a guy advertising
anti-spam services didn't advertise them by spam. The hypocricy of it is
amazing to me. The worst thing that this Mr. Mark Scott probably doesn't even
realize that his product would probably be appealing to some non-technical
people if it wasn't spammed out everywhere. He's basically ruining his
business by promoting it stupidly. To all the spammers out there, believe it
or not, while good advertisements might convince a few people to buy something
they might not have bought otherwise, obnoxious advertisements, especially
spam, will cause people who might have made a purchase to decline doing so on
principle and to prevent spam. [Jonathon Merz]
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6 Comments
Anonymous
April 26th, 2002
at 2:14am
I'll have spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, and spam.
Anonymous
April 26th, 2002
at 2:14am
er…sorry. I was corrupted by Monty Python as a small child.
Anonymous
April 26th, 2002
at 2:15pm
So how do you obscure your email address.
Anonymous
April 29th, 2002
at 6:17am
There are several ways:
me@dotcom.com.junkmail
me at dotcom dot com
Anonymous
April 29th, 2002
at 7:31am
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of how to obscure my email address from spammers on my web sites. I have since found a freeware program that writes a Java Script that you can Copy & Paste into your web page in the place of the 'mailto' tags.
URL for program is: http://assmaker.50megs.com/
I guess my only remaining question is do most people have java enabled when they are browsing - I think they do.
Anonymous
May 1st, 2002
at 5:09am
alternatively look for mail encrypter which ascii encodes your text so that the letter a looks like “#065″ in raw html but the browser interprets it as a.
Contact me for more info as I dont have the url to hand.