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This is the coolest way I have seen someone write their email and avoid email harvesting bots: For inquiries related to this book, use x@joyofcryptography.com,
by 1cvmask 5y ago
This is the coolest way I have seen someone write their email and avoid email harvesting bots:
For inquiries related to this book, use x@joyofcryptography.com, where x is the author's first name.
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Nearly everyone with a high school education can “crack” that puzzle and figure out his email and yet most bots will fail.
- stevenjgarner 5y agoRFC 5321 requires compliant domains to have both a "postmaster" and an "abuse" email address (e.g. postmaster@joyofcryptography.com). This technique will not stop a flood of spam emails to x@joyofcryptography.com, which will end up in the postmaster inbox.
- quesera 5y agoNot sure what you mean. Mail to the literal 'x@joyofcryptography.com' address would just be dropped. There's no expectation that mail to a nonexistent address would be placed in the postmaster mailbox.
- slig 5y agoI prefer cmlja2FzdGxleQ== at example.com, for instance, if the target audience is tech literate.
- MobiusHorizons 5y agolol, nice one.
- a-dub 5y agoi'd guess that bots these days harvest domain names and then human names associated with them and then spam tools try common schemes for constructing email addresses. don't know for sure though. i always thought the hotness would be to encrypt the address in source text and render/decrypt it client side in javascript, but i suppose scrapers these days use full blown headless browsers complete with javascript runtimes.
- clint 5y agoIts a very old technique from the 90s actually!