Re: enigma-list digest, Vol 1 #514 - 15 msgs

["Aaron" <microchp microchp org>]

If you post an email somewhere, then that email address will be used by people
regardless of what disclaimers or 'agreements' you add.  This will always be
true, even if every government makes spam a criminal offense.  Companies know
that they can sucker a large percentage of their spam victims into buying
things, and therefor it will not stop.

What you CAN do is make it harder for them to do business. One option is a
spam poisoner.  I add them to all my web sites.  In some cases, I even put
them on the root page of some of my domains that I do not use for anything.
(i.e. http://www.microchp.org/) You can also add footers that poison their
databases.  I find spiders crawling through them all the time, and if they do
so, it is their own fault, as I add meta tags which explicitily tell them not
to view the page.  The pages contain many bogus and real email addresses.  The
real addresses are those of abuse teams and other agencies.  I can give other
better examples, but they may be mis-understood as being spam themselves.

There are many other methods of inhibiting spammers, but they will never
eliminiate it completely.  If you use email, you will have to find your own
methods of filtering out what you do not wish to see, just as your own
snail-mail has been.

This is just my own little tiny opinion, and is only meant as a suggestion to
end the spam thread.

Aaron Wallace
microchp microchp org