More specifically, here are two sites that help to fight spam with spam:

 The first combats snail mail spammers, who send you mail you didn’t ask for, by using their own prepaid envelopes to mail the companies heavy items (e.g., a brick). Whatever the postage costs, the spammers have to pick up the tab since they paid for it in advance, with the intention that we return their standard sized envelopes - not parcels.

 The second combats internet spammers by flooding their mailing lists with invalid email addresses, straining their resources and wasting their time. Check out the link for more info.

 Both very clever. Links found via growabrain.

I like it.

I've been thinking of putting up a page filled with fake e-mail addresses on my dad's website with a description that says "This page isn't relevant to the store, but it helps prevent spam coming to you" but my dad won't agree.

Quote from: Doutzen Kroes;1274063I've been thinking of putting up a page filled with fake e-mail addresses on my dad's website with a description that says "This page isn't relevant to the store, but it helps prevent spam coming to you" but my dad won't agree.

That wouldn't really have much effect. The genius of this website is that it works by lots of people just linking to this page. It generates new email addresses each time. No matter how many times the same bot visited your prefabricated page it would not have any further effect.

Quote from: LeekClock;1274065That wouldn't really have much effect. The genius of this website is that it works by lots of people just linking to this page. It generates new email addresses each time. No matter how many times the same bot visited your prefabricated page it would not have any further effect.

Oooh

I thought the point was that as many people as possible just copy a list of fake e-mails and put it on their site.

No. You just have to post a link to this website on your site, and whenever a bot crawls your site looking for email addresses, it will also crawl this site since it's linked to it. In doing so it will fill up on all these randomly generated email addresses.

Also to the rest of us there's a lot of easy ways to prevent spam bots finding your e-mail, such as posting it like firstname [dot] lastname [at] adress [dot] com or using an e-mail form on your website, which, if you can't code, can be downloaded here.

I reckon by now they've probably made smarter bots that can replace [at] with @, and [dot] with .

On my site I try to protect my email by displaying an image that has my email address on it, rather than typing it. Google mail's spam filter is shit hot though, so I probably needn't be so cautious.

Quote from: LeekClock;1274087I reckon by now they've probably made smarter bots that can replace [at] with @, and [dot] with .

On my site I try to protect my email by displaying an image that has my email address on it, rather than typing it. Google mail's spam filter is shit hot though, so I probably needn't be so cautious.

The image thing is a good way to cover it but people either want to copypaste or click it to send, retyping isn't popular. I know it sounds nitpickish but in terms of webdesign it's like the designer has to go on all fours to cater the demands of the average surfer, people are lazy and impatient when it comes to websites.

Good point but it's a personal website solution. If someone wants to email me they can type my fucking email address. Haha

LEEK YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

Lol you can make an infinite list of fake email addresses and probably slow down their system considerably.