Re: Spam from for sale section Message #6 Posted by Vassilis Prevelakis on 28 July 2004, 2:48 a.m., in response to message #1 by John Nelson
I can understand your frustration.
I am doing two things to minimize spam,
(a) I use disposable addresses. I have my own domain name, and I simply generate email addresses by using random combinations of 7 character names (lower case alpha and numeric). I then alias these addresses to my real account. After 1-2 spam messages I simply delete them (or forward them to some other spammer :-).
(b) I include my address as a bitmap. For example, this is the address for the series80.org site.
While a determined attacker can isolate the address from the bitmap, few bother to do so, as its too labor intensive. They just do ASCII scans for strings that look like email addresses.
**vp
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