Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters?

pjp6259 writes "One of the common ways that spammers generate email mailing lists is by harvesting email addressess from websites. But in many cases you also need to make it easy for your customers to reach you. I have found three common solutions to this problem: 1.) Use an image to replace your email address. 2.) Use ascii encodings for some/all of the characters. 3.) Use javascript to concatenate and/or obfuscate your email address. Which of these methods are most effective? Are email harvesters able to interpret javascript? What do you use?"

Personally I go for

[also-rr]

IP geolocation [ip2location.com] and a shotgun.

Works for me.

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

[TeleoMan]

Yeah. Your lmergen il.com ['gma' in gap] is reallll professional. Jerk.

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

[WilliamSChips]

Are you trying to say that Slashdot is a professional forum?

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

[Ankou]

My email contact consists of Egyptian hieroglyphics in one of those 3d art displays. First you gotta stare at it for a few minutes to have the objects pop out. Next its a trip to Egypt where you must follow clues to meet an old shaman. Use his clues to navigate though a snake infested pyramid. Find the one eyed pirate after defeating the octopus. you are rewarded with a postcard with my email address in a sack in sans script. Be sure to avoid the poison arrows and rolling rock on the way out. Spammers be dammed.

Reverse psychology

[DoofusOfDeath]

Put in plain sight: on your homepage which you submit to Google for indexing.

It's so obvious, they'd NEVER think to look there.

Re:Simply put the address in clear text

[Ankou]

Thats why all my mailtos are "root@localhost" :)

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

[LiquidCoooled]

I use a similar method, expect them they can only actually send me mail on the Summer solstice using a special machine buried in the mountains of India and must be used whilst standing upon a hill overlooking khafkas' pyramid wearing a blue apron.
When the light shines through the fascia of the machine it powers up for a few minutes and opens a connection which is bounced around my diamond CPU initiating the SMTP process.
If you get the timing incorrect then the suns rays will instantly vaporise you.

So far I haven't had much spam.

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

[f1055man]

baseball bat in hand. give me an address and a plane ticket and I'll solve our moral problem.

Re:Publish your email address.

[sinistre]

I added [e-mail] to emailharvester.com for you :) as I've done all my friends and every e-mail I come across...

PS: Just kidding!

Re:I used to...

[Lord Kano]

Excellent idea, it'd be ignored by humans and scripts alike.

LK

Re:Personally I go for

[Tsuzuki]

Damn, you must have a pretty big shotgun!

Re:Publish your email address.

[ShooterNeo]

I took the liberty of visiting listopt.com and signed you up for about 100 different advertising newsletters. I sure hope you find them interesting.

Re:Publish your email address.

[Anonymous Coward]

Me too. [e-mail]

Re:Publish your email address.

[iMaple]

Thats your TA's address, isnt it ???

Re:Publish your email address.

[Random Destruction]

I figured all these cruel slashdotters would add you to spam lists, so to try to offset the damage, I went through my spam folder and used some of the 'unsubscribe' links for you. Hopefully this will lessen your damage.

Re:Publish your email address.

[Nefarious Wheel]

Dunno. I've always preferred [e-mail] myself.

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

[EMH_Mark3]

Damnit, why did it have to be snakes?!

Re:Another method..

[shmlco]

"That's why I'm a little annoyed at allofmp3.com at the moment, as I've supplied two email addresses to them on only two occassions, and both are huge spam recipients."

Just wait til you see what they do with your credit card number...

Re:Two kinds of spammers

[simonwalton]

I am glad you used the car analogy, I cannot understand new concepts without one.

Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail

[hotdiggitydawg]

Wait... I know you - you're Don Knuth!

(linkified [stanford.edu] because there's bound to be someone out there who just doesn't get it)