On 3/11/04 at 11:59, Neil Herber wrote:
> To defeat these slimeballs, I use addresses of the form
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], where the "xyz" identifies the recipient and "z"
> (the real letter z!) is not an address. My router entries then become:
> <z-badguy> = spamtrap
> <z-*> = realaddress
Nice. While I haven't (that I'm aware of) been hit by the tactics you
describe, I'll consider doing something similar to protect my real
address(es).
[Hehe, I like 'mydomain.calm'. Everyone take a purifying breath now...]
> A disadvantage I have found with this approach is that some Java
> based email address verifiers on web forms do not accept addresses
> containing hyphens.
I haven't run into that, but there are certainly all manner of stupid
scripts and programs running loose on the web. ;-) Since hyphens are
legal in e-mail addresses, any address verifier that disallows them must be
considered to be broken. That might not help in the real world when you
need to submit an address through such a broken script, but at least
there's a basis for complaining about it.
--
Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.globalhomes.com/>
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