Posted by Michael Daly on 03/30/07 05:10

Christoph Burschka wrote:

> The spam comes from somebody submitting the form, as intended.

More likely it comes from scraping the e-mail address off the raw text
of the page - whether HTML, PHP or any other source. If you make the
e-mail address look like an e-mail address, spammers find it and add it
to their databases. If it doesn't look like an e-mail address, they
don't find it. This will break if the spammers ever decide to render
the page before scraping it for e-mail addresses.

I did something like this some time ago. I have yet to receive a single
spam e-mail at the "hidden" address I use. Prior to that, I got tons of
spam at any e-mail address I've used on a web page.

There may be spammers entering forms, but they are not as numerous as
the dumb annoying spammers who do everything by brute force.

Mike

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