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ratman - 12:03 pm on Oct 4, 2002 (gmt 0)


I tried just changing five important characters in the email address (including the @ symbol), but although the spam slowed down a bit it still kept coming.

I tried looking for other ways to hide the email address but all of the others I found involved the use of Javascript.

I understand your point Dreamquick, and have been looking for an alternative but obfuscating has worked for me and I haven't had any complaints (yet!), so it is an option if nothing else works.

You can also set up your email software or server software to filter out and return any messages containing certain words, but this can obviously backfire. See the following (entertaining) post for some suggestions.

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