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Is the benefit worth the inconvenience? I've had my email in plain text on my personal site for the last 2 years and haven't noticed an increase in spam (thanks

by cj 15y ago

Is the benefit worth the inconvenience? I've had my email in plain text on my personal site for the last 2 years and haven't noticed an increase in spam (thanks to gmail, I suspect).

rogerbinns 15y ago
I've had mine on the Internet for well over a decade and run my own mail server. Plus it is a catch all domain - anything before the @ goes to me. My mail server is configured to be deliberately slow - taking a few seconds extra here or there to respond to SMTP commands. This catches out the spammers who just spew traffic at you ignoring the protocol. Checking sender domains actually exist plus the Zen RBL gets almost everything else. The dribble that gets through all that then goes to spamassassin which does a sterling job. (I make it put messages scoring 5-7 points in a special folder I manually examine every now and then to double check its effectiveness.) About the only problem I have had are bad recruiters who have made zero effort to ensure I am match for their client or vice versa. I even have a "Note to recruiters" prominently displayed on my resume, but of course the bad ones aren't going to bother reading that. I have to maintain a list of their domains to block since that appears to be the only way to stop them. (Currently 45 entries and counting ...)
- pagekalisedown 15y ago
  Would you be willing to share your list of bad recruiters?
  - rogerbinns 15y ago
    I've been threatening to do it for years, and I guess this is as good a time as any. Note of course that this is based on my experience. http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt This is my "Note to recruiters" http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html
    - pagekalisedown 15y ago
      "As any group of people gets larger, they get collectively slower and collectively stupider." Amen! My personal threshold is around 100 people. Pass 100, and you quickly dive into Dilbert territory.
      - rogerbinns 15y ago
        > My personal threshold is around 100 people That is probably highly correlated with Dunbar's number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number
        pagekalisedown 15y ago
        Very enlightening article, thank you!
hasantayyar 15y ago
This is not only for your own email on your site. Especially on comminity sites your you can protect your users' emails with mailhide API http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/mailhideapi.html http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/mailhideapi.html

by cj 15y ago

Is the benefit worth the inconvenience? I've had my email in plain text on my personal site for the last 2 years and haven't noticed an increase in spam (thanks to gmail, I suspect).

rogerbinns 15y ago

I've had mine on the Internet for well over a decade and run my own mail server. Plus it is a catch all domain - anything before the @ goes to me. My mail server is configured to be deliberately slow - taking a few seconds extra here or there to respond to SMTP commands. This catches out the spammers who just spew traffic at you ignoring the protocol. Checking sender domains actually exist plus the Zen RBL gets almost everything else. The dribble that gets through all that then goes to spamassassin which does a sterling job. (I make it put messages scoring 5-7 points in a special folder I manually examine every now and then to double check its effectiveness.) About the only problem I have had are bad recruiters who have made zero effort to ensure I am match for their client or vice versa. I even have a "Note to recruiters" prominently displayed on my resume, but of course the bad ones aren't going to bother reading that. I have to maintain a list of their domains to block since that appears to be the only way to stop them. (Currently 45 entries and counting ...)

pagekalisedown 15y ago
Would you be willing to share your list of bad recruiters?
- rogerbinns 15y ago
  I've been threatening to do it for years, and I guess this is as good a time as any. Note of course that this is based on my experience. http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt This is my "Note to recruiters" http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html
  - pagekalisedown 15y ago
    "As any group of people gets larger, they get collectively slower and collectively stupider." Amen! My personal threshold is around 100 people. Pass 100, and you quickly dive into Dilbert territory.
    - rogerbinns 15y ago
      > My personal threshold is around 100 people That is probably highly correlated with Dunbar's number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number
      - pagekalisedown 15y ago
        Very enlightening article, thank you!

hasantayyar 15y ago

This is not only for your own email on your site. Especially on comminity sites your you can protect your users' emails with mailhide API http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/mailhideapi.html http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/mailhideapi.html