Pleague of our century

Posted on:April 10 2005

That's not possible. Or is it? Yesterday I announced my brand new email adress at my brand new domain on the main page of irrlicht.sf.net, and I didn't write the adress correctly, I wrote additional spaces and an (at) instead of @. Today I'm getting the first spam mail. 'argl'
Update: Replaced the adress with images. Hope it helps.

Comments:

Perhaps nikoATirrlicht3dDOTorg would've been a little better. Anyway, spam is really annoying and seems inevitable...

bal

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2005-04-10 11:30:00

yeah.. until there is something like death penalty for them..

niko

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2005-04-10 13:21:00

you could also add the *no spam* to it as well!

ThaDamnItalian

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2005-04-10 16:45:00

I think your image approach will be fairly effective, as I dont think most of these spam bots go and look at pages for images lol. Text, definetly...lol..speaking of images..skinnable gui..cough...id like to help...

RabidLockerGnome

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2005-04-10 23:58:00

Isn't the problem coming from this blog where your e-mail address is directly visible at the bottom of each post ? I don't think spam robots are smart enought to decypher an address with the (at) inside... but I might be wrong, who knows really !?

jonjon

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2005-04-11 14:38:00

Spam that comes from whois is worse.

http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=http://www.irrlicht3d.org/

Also, if you only have one mail account, your mail server may be passing any unsendable mail to you.

Heck, I have 3 anti-spam filters on my mail server and still get "h0t st0ck t1ps!!!"

Saigumi

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2005-04-11 15:11:00

I already thought about whois spam, but luckily I did not receive any yet. About the mail adress on this blog: It is being encoded with javascript, take a look at the source. Don't know if this really helps, but I think.

niko

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2005-04-11 16:05:00