Thread: A Message For Spammers On the CNC zone website

We just figure let them waste their time trying cause it ain't going to work here either

Umm, I don't think that spammers actually visit the sites they spam.

I run a car-based forum, and have implemented manual registration processing to stop the spammers.

We end up with at least 8-10 attempts by spammers to sign up every night.

They have to visit the site, click on the "register" link and fill in their details.

One field that I put in was the location, and list it as ACT, NSW, NT, Overseas, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC & WA.

I found most were not looking at the location, and were defaulting to ACT, as it was top of the list (alphabetically) so I put one in the list: AA-Spammer

The idiots (or automated process?) picks "AA-Spammer" as it's the first on the list, and it makes it real easy to collate them into one list & delete the lot.

Originally Posted by mixin

The idiots (or automated process?) picks "AA-Spammer" as it's the first on the list, and it makes it real easy to collate them into one list & delete the lot.

Marvellous!

Heres how stupid spammers are. They send their cr*p emails to my spamcop email address knowing full well that anything remotely resembling spam gets bounced off a brickwall arsenal of blacklists and then the originating IP of the spam gets added to an IP blacklist widely distributed amongst ISP's.

Originally Posted by craigb

Umm, I don't think that spammers actually visit the sites they spam.

Correct. Spammers use spambots to sift through websites for email addresses.

so how can you put an email adress on a webpage and avoid spammers?

Originally Posted by echnidna

so how can you put an email adress on a webpage and avoid spammers?

By expressing it in human-only-readable form, e.g. myname AT whatever DOT com.

Joe

Originally Posted by echnidna

so how can you put an email adress on a webpage and avoid spammers?

Follow the tips on this site

To see it in operation, either go to his site or go to mine

Richard
it's the only javascript on an otherwise html clean page

I've tried all sorts of stuff, including abstracting the the address in javascript or html, but the most successful for me is the simplest. I just type in the email address and then take a screenshot of it, crop it and insert that.

So that:

[email protected] becomes an image:



Someone who wants to send an email will have to type the address.

I've heard that some spammers have software that reads images like that, but it doesn't seem to be a problem so far...

woodbe.

Thanks Daddles I'm having a look now.

Thanks woodbe, I've done that in the past,
just wondering if theres a better way.

That is a brilliant way to do it Daddles, thanks heaps.