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

[Felipe Polo-Wood]

I don't think the email address within HTML is the big culprit.  I have 
a commercial domain and I don't get much spam at felipe at pacasmayo.net, 
but when I created one for my daughter Michelle, by the time I got a 
hold of her to teach her how to use it, she already had 20 spam mails!
Michelle, being a lot more common name than Felipe, has been receiving 
hundreds a day.  I created a rule on my server to send all unknown users 
mail to a certain folder, and I can clearly see that once they learn of 
a domain, they just attack it with their dictionary list of names, 
because I am getting hundreds of email in alphabetical order!

Felipe

-----Original Message-----
From: "Austin, Roger D." <rda at rti.org>
To: "'RTPnet members and friends'" <rtpnet-list at rtpnet.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:44:47 -0400
Subject: RE: [rtpnet-list] "hiding" e-mail addresses via forms

> > -----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.
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