A Message For Spammers On the CNC zone website

[echnidna]

Spammers DON'T Bother!
Spammers it's a waste of your time to join this site, you will never get past the moderators and in most cases won't even get pass the registration process. We AGGRESSIVELY monitor all forums and ban at will. At best your post will be up for a min and gone forever.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6054

Good message :2tsup:

[Wood Butcher]

We just figure let them waste their time trying cause it ain't going to work here either:p

[echnidna]

:2tsup:

[craigb]

Umm, I don't think that spammers actually visit the sites they spam.

[mixin]

I run a car-based forum, and have implemented manual registration processing to stop the spammers.

We end up with at least 8-10 attempts by spammers to sign up every night.

They have to visit the site, click on the "register" link and fill in their details.

One field that I put in was the location, and list it as ACT, NSW, NT, Overseas, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC & WA.

I found most were not looking at the location, and were defaulting to ACT, as it was top of the list (alphabetically) so I put one in the list: AA-Spammer

The idiots (or automated process?) picks "AA-Spammer" as it's the first on the list, and it makes it real easy to collate them into one list & delete the lot.

[AlexS]

The idiots (or automated process?) picks "AA-Spammer" as it's the first on the list, and it makes it real easy to collate them into one list & delete the lot.

Marvellous!:D

[kiwigeo]

Heres how stupid spammers are. They send their cr*p emails to my spamcop email address knowing full well that anything remotely resembling spam gets bounced off a brickwall arsenal of blacklists and then the originating IP of the spam gets added to an IP blacklist widely distributed amongst ISP's.

[kiwigeo]

Umm, I don't think that spammers actually visit the sites they spam.

Correct. Spammers use spambots to sift through websites for email addresses.

[echnidna]

so how can you put an email adress on a webpage and avoid spammers?

[joe greiner]

so how can you put an email adress on a webpage and avoid spammers?

By expressing it in human-only-readable form, e.g. myname AT whatever DOT com.

Joe

[Daddles]

so how can you put an email adress on a webpage and avoid spammers?

Follow the tips on this site (http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/spam.htm)

To see it in operation, either go to his site or go to mine :D

Richard
it's the only javascript on an otherwise html clean page :oo:

[woodbe]

I've tried all sorts of stuff, including abstracting the the address in javascript or html, but the most successful for me is the simplest. I just type in the email address and then take a screenshot of it, crop it and insert that.

So that:

[email protected] becomes an image:

http://www.adam.com.au/maf/woodwork/testemail.jpg

Someone who wants to send an email will have to type the address.

I've heard that some spammers have software that reads images like that, but it doesn't seem to be a problem so far...

woodbe.

[echnidna]

Thanks Daddles I'm having a look now.

Thanks woodbe, I've done that in the past,
just wondering if theres a better way.

[echnidna]

That is a brilliant way to do it Daddles, thanks heaps.