★★A NEW SOLUTION TO SPAM HARVESTING BOTS★★

So here we go continuing on A NEW SOLUTION TO SPAM HARVESTING BOTS...

Many of us have heard about William Bontrager's CGI Script, SpamBot Buster and what it can do to help you protect your email address from harvesters. I encourage webmasters and list owners to read about it, then download a free copy of the script here.

Install it and follow directions to post email links that cannot be harvested on your site. The script will also generate a web URL that allows you to post in discussion lists where spambots regularly trawl for participant emails.
The URL sends a command to your server and seems magically to open your email program and offers up a preaddressed email window for use in your ezine, in articles and in postings to forums when you need to post an email address in any public online places accessible to spambot crawlers.
BAD NEWS FOR OLD PREVENTATIVE TECHNIQUES

Those of you that have heard of the so-called email address cloaking tools that display characters in "unicode" to help prevent email harvesting by the spambots may be dismayed to discover that it no longer works all of the time. The bad boys of spam are fully aware that many of this use that, now old, technique and have written new software to harvest those addresses displayed in unicode characters. If you haven't yet seen this technique used, I invite you to read another article on the unicode email address cloaking method.http://website101.com/SpamFilter/spambot_unicode.htmlAn additional recommendation for hiding email addresses has been to use a form on your site for public contact instead of posting a mailto: link. Once again, bad boy spammers have worked out this technique too, and adapted harvesting software to gather the address from the form field in your contact form. The same is true of the old javascript email link technique.

The dramatic and secure feature of this new technique of hiding your email is that the address doesn't reside anywhere in the code on the page, in javascript or in form fields in your contact form. When it's not on the page or anywhere in the code, the spambots can't get your email.

This new technique will, by no means, solve the spam problem but does go a long way toward reducing the sometimes almost maddening hide-and-seek game we all play with spammers. That anti spam tutorial is the first place I'll implement this new technique.Here's my new unharvestable email link :-) http://privacynotes.com/cgi-bin/M/msb.cgi?3

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