Friday, April 12, 2002
A good way to protect your email address from being harvested by spammers, when posting to a public forum is to give your address as myname[at]mydomain.com rather than myname@mydomain.com.
But is this really foolproof? How much time would it take a writer of an email harvesting program to add the logic that myname[at]mydomain.com=myname@mydomain.com?
Is there any reason why the characters [ ] should throw them off? Not being a software programmer myself, I really wouldn't know. Logically though, it shouldn't be so difficult. Maybe, some of our fellow bloggers can shed some light.
But is this really foolproof? How much time would it take a writer of an email harvesting program to add the logic that myname[at]mydomain.com=myname@mydomain.com?
Is there any reason why the characters [ ] should throw them off? Not being a software programmer myself, I really wouldn't know. Logically though, it shouldn't be so difficult. Maybe, some of our fellow bloggers can shed some light.
# posted by Ashok @ 11:32 AM 
