Re: Whimper. Anybody notice huge spam jump??

Hmm. Well, at $19.95 it would be worth it! Last thing I need is to
feel guilty about propagating additional spam to the innocents whose
emails are listed on my websites.

However, I'm not seeing any current reviews online. Does anyone know
somebody who is using it now?

Maybe we all can compare notes??

- Marilyn

>I've noticed it too. I am considering using SpamVaccine, which will
>encode all email addresses on a site with a javascript jumble of
>numbers and symbols. This might work better than the javascript
>you're using now since there's no text at all.
>
>Regards,
>Aileen
>
>>Hi All -
>>
>>I have a favorite, easy-to-use javascript for email addresses on
>>websites that I have used for years without issue. I happen to use
>>it not only on the campus website that I manage, but also on a
>>non-profit's website. That particular website's emails are
>>actually aliases, so I get different information when that
>>website's emails are forwarded.
>>
>>Well, the spambots seem to be breaking through my javascript, and
>>forwarding garbage into these aliases--and in turn into my own
>>mailbox.
>>
>>I suspect that this is probably true for the campus website
>>javascript mailto: bits too, though I can't tell since there is no
>>forwarding involved. I'm guessing that the "mailto:" code probably
>>triggers the spambot software to run more sophisticated analysis of
>>the javascript to pull out the email address (the javascript breaks
>>up the email address into pieces in plain text, and then
>>reassembles it for display).
>>
>>There has been news already about the 20% worldwide increase of
>>spam over the last month due to these new spambots.
>>
>>Is anyone else having this problem? Any javascript mailto code
>>others are using without increased spam?
>>
>>- Marilyn
>>
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