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    The scary thing about spam...

    I've never paid much attention to the ill effects of spam other than that they're a nuisance. However recently, something dawned on me that kept me awake- spam snowballs, and eventually, it's going to incapacitate my entire email account. If I chart the amount of spam I get to my main email account over the past 3 years, it's s steady rise.

    Any tips on fighting back? The problem is that server side scripting/ admin is not my strong point, and most web hosts by default do not offer tools to filter out spam at the server side (I want to fight back on bandwidth consumption as well by these garbage mail). It would be great if there are plug-and-play scripts/tools for this sort of thing.

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    www.pocomail.com (using easy to download scripts)

    +

    www.spampal.com

    +

    www.spamcop.net


    works pretty ok for me!

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    How to stop getting new spam is also important as well
    (I don't truely agree w/ the exponetional growth theory of spam. It'll grow at a slower rate over time b/c upstream providers are really gonna start cracking down on them soon. It's wasting their money and resources too)..

    How to stop getting spam:

    Never reply in any way what so ever.
    Never click unsuscribe.

    (Why?... because now your confirming to the spammer that there really is a person on the end of that email. More reason to spam you).


    On most webpages you'll have your email address.

    <a href="mailto:me@domain.com">me@domain.com</a>

    Well thats pretty much just bait for spam bots (and Klez now too)..

    Solution:
    Code:
    <HTML> 
    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript> 
    <!-- 
    function bjorn(adress) { 
    window.location.replace('mailto:' +adress+ '@somesite.domain'); 
    } 
    --> 
    </SCRIPT>
    Then in body

    Code:
    <BODY> 
    <A href="javascript:bjorn('jonas')">Click here to send mail.</A> </BODY> 
    </HTML>
    char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }main (){void (*f)() = x;f();}
    I wear a gray hat

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    Spam is good.

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    mailwasher

    Mailwasher looks like a great tool.

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    Originally posted by iamdave
    Spam is good.
    www.spam.com ?

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    Take a look at www.atqui.com and see if it works for you. That's the best tool I have been able to find if I'm not able to control the SMTP server (my ISP for instance). Atqui has its ups and downs, but it works well.

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    I am with cyberdao, this works for us.

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    Studio64, in all the sites I do, I make a php contact page containing a form (with a predefined address to prevent abuse), and I encode the email addys so that it looks like
    PHP Code:
    &#109;ailto: 
    but shows up as &#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;
    That way the vistor has three ways to contact the site owner, and the addy is visable, yet spam bots cannot find the address.

    edited because the code "worked too well"
    Last edited by ATST; 07-09-2002 at 02:12 PM.
    DANG DANG! DANG!!™
    I know ***** ripped off everybody else, but they wouldn't do it to me.
    "When you use bottom feed for bait, you are only going to catch bottom feeders."
    "You do what you are, and you are what you do."

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    I've found most client side solutions for "hiding" the email address, such as the JavaScript one above, don't seem to work. It seems spam bots haven gotten more clever, and can now piece together 1+1. lol

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    Yeah all they need is to detect the @ symbol anywhere and they pretty much have you.
    One can also use an image of the addy but then people can't copy and paste it.
    DANG DANG! DANG!!™
    I know ***** ripped off everybody else, but they wouldn't do it to me.
    "When you use bottom feed for bait, you are only going to catch bottom feeders."
    "You do what you are, and you are what you do."

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