Whimper. Anybody notice huge spam jump??

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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Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 11:04:20 PST