carpe decorum

spam

./ posted Why Am I Getting All This Spam?

• Conclusion: Robots can easily harvest emails from public websites, and these generate by far the most spam.
• Easy solutions: post email to sites in human-understandable form, such as email at domain dot com or using HTML character coding to obscure the address.

Several sites have also written about AOL's suits against spammers and an enterprising Marylander who posted a spammer's contact information.

Sounds like I have some website work to do, because frankly my organization has limited bandwidth and storage (who doesn't?), and better things to spend limited funds on than unwanted, unsolicited advertising that annoys end-users.