Preventing Spam Harvesting
A trully tremendous resource courtesy of Slashdot. Methods that people have used to prevent email address harvesting from the web. I’ve used one of the techniques myself and I’ll be interested to see if it works. As people close to me know, I’ve had many problems with spam recently and I am determined to lower the amounts I get.
As I already metioned the article before, I’m using several mail servers. And believe me, spammers are really trying brute force. They just send spams to almost everything on my servers. Mostly adresses which seem to be senseful with real names (of course most of them bounce since I live in Germany and don’t know any "john.smith@mydomain.de"
). But from time to time even truely brute force. And they are the biggest problem since they are producing unbelievable traffic and load. Even when the mailserver is rejecting mail for unknown users…
Crap. Hope that doesn’t happen to me. Chances are that it might of course. F**king spammers. They really are absolute arseholes. I’ve never known such a group of people with such disregard for others.