Dead links and SPAM

[Greg Newell]

Ooooo thanks for the good info John. You can be sure I'll be using it.

Greg

John Musselwhite wrote:

> At 12:37 AM 10/26/01 -0400, Greg wrote:
>
> >sell to their clients. Best to just delete and move on. The ones I hate
>
> Don't *ever* respond to spam, just delete it. If you must respond to it,
> forward it to "abuse" at whatever the ".com" address indicates. Spammers
> can have their Internet access cut for doing it.
>
> >are the "We are 18" ones and the "breast / penis enlargement". I really
> >must get around to setting up those filters!
>
> I just checked my "trash" folder in Eudora and there are 46 unread "spam"
> messages that my filters caught since I emptied the trash last night. Do
> get around to it as it's worth it.
>
> One other thing... if you have a WWW page you can "hide" your contact EMail
> address with some simple code. This will help fool the email scanning
> programs that get addresses from WWW pages. Check out this
> link:  http://www.scriptsearch.com/details/3550.html
>
> "Email address code scrambler. Fight spam. Your spam problem comes from
> spam crawler robots. They crawl your site to add your email addresses their
> spam lists. Make your email addresses invisible to spam crawlers. Hide your
> mail addresses from robots in plain sight. Visitors to your web pages can
> read and click on your email addresses the same way they do now. Robots
> will not find them. Stay off spam lists. Search engine friendly. Easy to use."
>
>                  John
>
> John Musselwhite, RPT    -     Calgary, Alberta Canada
> http://www.musselwhite.com  http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary
> mailto:john@musselwhite.com    http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom

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Greg Newell
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