How do you deal with spam harvesters?
Posted: Jan 09, 2007 7:45 pm
Hi Chris,
Just plain curious, I have noticed over the past two or three weeks a couple of new user register who just smell of having joined for no other reason than to be able to harvest e-mail addresses to populate spam e-mail lists. One of the things, for me at least, as a dead give-away is the website they list in their profile, IF they give one.
How do you deal with those people, do you arbitrarily remove them of they look fishy or????
For the very reason of trying to outwit harvesters I hide my e-mail address in my profile, and on my website I populate my e-mail address by means of a little j a v a script which makes harvesting much more difficult. Even with that I still get more than my share of spam that makes it past my ISP's spam filter.
Just plain curious, I have noticed over the past two or three weeks a couple of new user register who just smell of having joined for no other reason than to be able to harvest e-mail addresses to populate spam e-mail lists. One of the things, for me at least, as a dead give-away is the website they list in their profile, IF they give one.
How do you deal with those people, do you arbitrarily remove them of they look fishy or????
For the very reason of trying to outwit harvesters I hide my e-mail address in my profile, and on my website I populate my e-mail address by means of a little j a v a script which makes harvesting much more difficult. Even with that I still get more than my share of spam that makes it past my ISP's spam filter.