On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Wander Nauta <i...@wandernauta.nl> wrote: > I agree, entity-encoded mailto: links work quite well. They may not work > forever, though, and some Drew McLellan made a good point here: >> >> In some ways, obfuscated addresses are even more valuable >> to spammers, as the very act of obfuscation could suggest >> that the address is important to someone.
Certainly true, but the obfuscating user (or system) also signals that he's spam-resistant: he filters aggressively, blocks ads, isn't gullible, etc. Spam is a numbers game, I understand, but cracking my obfuscation gets you access to a hardboiled skeptic who's already, umm, large enough, thank you. Wouldn't want to scare the ladies. ;) Seriously, I think we're still in an age of leet stratification. A comparatively small group signals that it's generally insusceptible to spam, and then there's everybody else. If I were a spammer, I don't know how hard I'd work to get access to the first group -- since my emails probably still won't get through, and they won't click anyway. Obfuscation is one of the ways we signal our low-value to spammers. It could be they're glad to know it and go where the fishing is better, which is everywhere else. And everywhere else is growing. None of this helps my mom, of course. But it helps me. LQ _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
