|  | Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/11/06 05:21 
Nikita the Spider wrote:
 > I've set up several spamtrap addresses to study this. Eventually I'll
 > write a short article about my findings, but in the meantime I'll
 > summarize here. I have three email addresses all on the same page.
 > One is naked (i.e. just foo@example.com), one is entity encoded (i.e.
 > foo  etc.) and one is added to the page by Javascript.
 > The number of spams each has gotten to date is as follows:
 >
 >    naked - 715
 >    entities - 2
 >    javascript - 1
 
 I'll agree that using entities works. I have one address on a web site
 that began life in this form. Never got any spam in about six years.
 
 Then one day, I started getting bounces from emails containing viruses.
 I found out that someone who added my address to his address book got
 infected. My address was used as a forged FROM: by this virus. Shortly
 after that, I started to get spam and it's hovering around 200-250 per
 day now.  :-(
 
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