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George
I've got a simple website that directs people (as most websites do) to send
an email for more information, etc.
But over time, I'm getting more and more spam, and wondered about ideas to
rearrange and rename the emails to combat this. (Sure, I've got anti-spam,
but it only goes so far.)
FIRST, I wondered where the spam-email-gathering "bots" are harvesting the
email from...
Is it primarily just scanning what appears on the face of the website like
"Contact us at (e-mail address removed)?
Or, are the "bots" looking behind the forms where a customer puts his
name/address/email and clicks submit...which causes the 'website' (not the
customer's Outlook) to generate an email to
(e-mail address removed)?
SECOND, got any ideas on how to combat this...like turning the email text
into a graphic (can't be harvested), or "Contact us at i n f o @ X Y Z ...
" or telling the customer to "send us an email at info at our company dot
com", or whatever...
Agreed, I'll have to "retire" these current spam-ruined emails and give the
next batch new names...but I'd like to try something different on the newly
named emails so they don't become spam casualties...or at least they last a
little longer than the previous ones.
Thanks for any ideas,
George
an email for more information, etc.
But over time, I'm getting more and more spam, and wondered about ideas to
rearrange and rename the emails to combat this. (Sure, I've got anti-spam,
but it only goes so far.)
FIRST, I wondered where the spam-email-gathering "bots" are harvesting the
email from...
Is it primarily just scanning what appears on the face of the website like
"Contact us at (e-mail address removed)?
Or, are the "bots" looking behind the forms where a customer puts his
name/address/email and clicks submit...which causes the 'website' (not the
customer's Outlook) to generate an email to
(e-mail address removed)?
SECOND, got any ideas on how to combat this...like turning the email text
into a graphic (can't be harvested), or "Contact us at i n f o @ X Y Z ...
" or telling the customer to "send us an email at info at our company dot
com", or whatever...
Agreed, I'll have to "retire" these current spam-ruined emails and give the
next batch new names...but I'd like to try something different on the newly
named emails so they don't become spam casualties...or at least they last a
little longer than the previous ones.
Thanks for any ideas,
George