RE: [APML] Spamcop

["Stan Richard" <stanrichard@hotmail.com>]

While we're on the subject, I found this neat little webpage that will 
encode your email address if you publicly display it on a webpage or if it's 
in the source code (e.g., all you astrophotographers with websites and email 
links).  Then just paste the encoded version into your HTML, it will look 
and act the same except it can't be grabbed by the spammers.  According to 
this website (or whatever site linked me to this page), internet spiders and 
robots retrieve the majority of their email addresses from public webpages, 
not from companies or parties that you have given your email address to, as 
I have always thought.  We'll see how it works.  Maybe most of you already 
know about this.

http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html

Stan Richard
Events in the Night Sky
www.nightskyevents.com





>From: steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
>To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Subject: RE: [APML] Spamcop
>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:22:55 -0700
>
>At 12:38 PM 9/23/03 -0500,Richard wrote:
>
> >I'm ready to think that that kind of heavy-handed action is the only 
>thing
> >left to cure the problem.  If a domain owner/controller/ISP won't 
>terminate
> >the spamsters and/or properly configure their ports for clean operation,
> >then the remainder of the net should block said domain 
>owner/controller/ISP.
> >Legitimate customers will apply the pressure to cure the offenses, or 
>they
> >will leave, ending the business operation.
> >
>
>Hi Richard--I hate spammers too, but did you note what Gene wrote in his 
>post?
>
>
> >Spamcop has apparently become as evil as ORBIS in terms of
> >blacklisting innocent domains and then refusing to delist
> >them since their lists are for reference only and are known
> >to have errors and therefor it is the ISPs' that are using
> >the lists fault if they rely on this information.
>
>
>Perhaps "blacklisting innocent domains" with resulting damage to their
>business is not a good thing.  Sort of goes against "innocent until
>proven guilty" principles which used to be part of our national
>heritage.
>
>Steve
>
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