From: Aron Roberts (aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 12:29:54 PDT
At 11:44 -0700 2003-04-15, Larry M. Jones wrote:
>FYI, an interesting study of where spammers are getting addresses
>and some ways to avoid having your address harvested.
>
>>Subject: Windows & .NET Magazine UPDATE, April 15, 2003
>>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:06:49 -0400 (EDT)
>>...
>>And finally, on a related note, I came across a fascinating report
>>about junk mail that will interest many Windows & .NET Magazine UPDATE
>>readers. According to the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT),
>>most junk mail comes from displaying email addresses on public Web
>>sites, but ways exist to avoid spam even after your email address has
>>been made public. It's a great report and well worth reading.
>> http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
That study concluded:
>CDT received the most [spam] e-mails when an address was placed
>visibly on a public Web site. Spammers use software harvesting
>programs such as "robots" or "spiders" to record e-mail addresses
>listed on Web sites, including both personal Web pages and
>institutional (corporate or non-profit) Web pages.
Some steps you can take to help protect your personal or
departmental e-mail addresses from 'harvesting' by spammers are
mentioned in the CDT's study, as well as in the following article:
"Protecting your website's email addresses from being used by spammers"
Berkeley Computing and Communications, Winter 2003
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Winter2003/feat.spamharvest.html
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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