[rtpnet-list] "hiding" e-mail addresses via forms

[Austin, Roger D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Shoemaker [mailto:shoemaker at acm.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:34 AM

> PS: FYI - I've been "aauw at rtpnet.org" since 1996, and that address gets 
> less than one spam message a day. Of course, any is too much, but I'm not 
> yet incented to "hide" the e-mail addresses on RTPnet pages for the sake
of 
> avoiding spam.

 austin at rtpnet.org gets 20-30 spams a day. It isn't on any web page 
on RTPnet so I assume that a dictionary attack was used to get the 
address.
 I'm not sure that forms deflect all that much spam. Once they have an 
address, they hammer it. I have it filtered now, but I wonder how many 
real messages I have deleted where the subject line wasn't specific 
enough.