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Old November 24th, 2004, 5:23 PM   #39 (permalink)
Dark Matter
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Your fakeemail[at]yourdomain.com is to supporting Spam. They own your domain, they could careless that its whatever[at] so by you doing this you are supporting spam.

And no in the long run you are not solving this, this is a horrible example of how to solve this.

How to solve it is to
1. Having applications inplace
(MailScanner, SpamAssassin and SpamBayes)(Thunderbird).

2. Using Block/Black list
(Spamhuas)

3. Block known spambots
4. Banish visible email addresses
such as mailto
4.1. Use images
PBM package (which seems to be packaged with Linux) is a great way to generate these graphics, for example:

shell> echo user[at]example.com | pbmtext | pnmcrop | pnmpad -white -l2 -r2 -t2 -b2 > email.pnm
shell> convert email.pnm email.gif


This produces the following, which looks pretty neat and tidy:

user[at]example.com

5. JavaScript
to make your email links hard to recognise for spambots

There are more examples I have but not going to list them if your going to think that way.
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