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Re: [anti-spam] [anti-spam-wg] antispam suggestion
- To: Alexander Kolesnik [email protected]
- From: "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" [email protected]
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:41:25 +0000
- Organization: UniVie - ACOnet
- Reply-to: [email protected]
Alexander Kolesnik wrote: > Dear sirs, > > Last time I'm receiving a lot of spam to my RIPE contact > email. > > I have a suggestion that will probably help to reduce spam to emails > provided in RIPE whois output: > 1. Substitute email addresses in whois output with something like "use > http://www.ripe.net/whois" > 2. Substitute letters in emails at http://www.ripe.net/whois with > their graphical representation or use javascript to build the text > that spam robots will be unable to parse. > 3. Add following text to your whois web-engine: "You need > javascript-compatible (graphics-compatible) browser to see emails". > This would most probably -imho- do more harm to legitimate users than it will (at least in the long run) stop spammers from using that source of addresses. Not least the query-modify-sign-resubmit cycle for those who have to *maintain* data. Wilfried.
- [anti-spam-wg] antispam suggestion
- From: Alexander Kolesnik
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