DVR saw my complaint about spam and remark that USENET was toxic to email addresses. He sent me an interesting url on obfuscating email addresses. More interesting, however, was a follow-on link to some research on how email harvesting systems work.
Contrary to my idea, it seems an email posted on a webpage produces a lot more spam than email posted on USENET. It also indicated that obfuscating email addresses was very effective way to avoid being harvested.
I would have thought the harvesting software was smarter than it apparently behaves. I'm also suprised no one has got there hands on some of the harvesting robots.
Posted by Nils Blutig at June 22, 2003 11:24 PM | TrackBack