Hindering internet spammers.

[Dinner]

What are other ways to hinder internet spammers or fight junk e-mail?

[Mercator]

Use client-side scripts to generate the e-mail addresses in not too straight-forward ways.
Spambots usually spider the web, download the files and extract any something@something sequence or perhaps mailto: references or so.
If you roll your addresses in javascript the e-mail won't show up plainly in the file so they'd need a script interpreter to get to the address.

[Odin]

Problem is that the spammers will complain that regulations are a violation of the 1st amendment. We kno who Bushy will side with

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Odin
Problem is that the spammers will complain that regulations are a violation of the 1st amendment. We kno who Bushy will side with

The problem isn't if it's a 1st amendment right, the problem is the overwelming number of spam you get in your e-mail box(es) every day. You don't get that much in your snailmail box do you? About once or twice a week you get a telemarketer as well.

I don't mind advertisments in my e-mail, it's just that there are so many that I don't bother. In fact, I gave up on my ISP's e-mail adress, and to avoid getting charged extra for that spam in my mail box, I call them up and ask them to delete them all.

I use hotmail, set it high level spam filther and have it automaticly delete them. I got a handle on it now, but I still don't like it.

[Kropotkin]

I've long suspected, for reasons that should be clear for all, that apolyton OT really is the Theresienstadt of the internet. This as we all are notorious spammers. One day our false sence of security will end in horror.

[Dinner]

Did you know that even with your Hotmail spam filter on high you will still get spam? That's because MS raises money by selling privilaged accress to all of it's MSN & hotmail users. In other words if a spammer pays MS then MS will make sure the spam ends up in their users mailboxes. It let's them through the filter if they pay MS.

[Provost Harrison]

I have received no spam in my hotmail account unlike other people. I do not understand why, perhaps because I didn't click on any of the 'interests' things when starting the accounts.

Anyway, yeah, this should be duplicated as often as possible, just to give the spammers absolute headaches and hopefully make their task too difficult to bother with.

[Edan]

I don't think it will work. How much more work/cost is it for spammers to spam another 50/100 non-working email addresses, anyway? probably not much, by my estimation.

As for having a "please-take-me-off-this-spam-list type of thing, it's a *bad* idea to email a response saying you don't want to be getting the spam, as it will only verify for the spammer that your email address works. A better solution is using filtering software of some sort and avoiding displaying your email address in public online locations.

[Provost Harrison]

Well what is needed is for people to copy that script and post it all over the internet to trip the things up...

[Kropotkin]

HAHA!!!

[Provost Harrison]

[Kropotkin]

Well, you know that would be ... spam...

[Provost Harrison]

Well people wouldn't have to click on the link you know

[Skanky Burns]

An even better idea would be to get a free email account with someone other than hotmail!

www.fastmail.fm is a good one that I use, there are others equally as good too. Try one.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Clear Skies


Ah, another thing to put on my list of Things To Do Once I Am Prime Minister...

No, you should solve the problem permanently by commissioning your double-0 agents to eliminate them with extreme prejudice. Say, that could be the basis of the next James Bond flick!