John Kavanagh
Indie WebDeveloper
Client-side and Front-end Development. Expert in cross-browser compatibilities, beautiful layouts, accessibility and advanced CSS/XHTML

Avoid Email Harvesting from your Websites

11.02.2009 0

Avoid Email Harvesting from your Websites

Spam crawlers trawl the internet hopping from page to page, searching for unprotected email addresses in your source code. When they do find one, and even worse: if they do find your email address then you best hope you have good filtering because that email address will be squirrelled away and appear on thousands of spam mailing lists for literally years to come. I recently logged into an email account at HotPop that I abandoned almost five years ago just to discover that it was still being inundated with spam every day, even now.

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