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Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

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On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 19:39 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Celejar wrote: 
> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 15:51:28 -0400
> > Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Okay, but why isn't trying to limit spammers getting hold of an address
> > > > a logical part of a defense in depth strategy?
> > > 
> > > Because it doesn't work. If it worked as well as, say, moving
> > > your SSH port*, I would encourage it. It does not.
> > 
> > Source? Is this your personal experience, or do you have some other
> > basis for this? Cloudflare, for example, asserts that:
> > 
> > "Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation helps in spam prevention by
> > hiding email addresses appearing in your pages from email harvesters
> > and other bots, while remaining visible to your site visitors."
> 
> Source: experience from being actively involved in the Internet
> for 25 years, including time on anti-spam initiatives at BBN and
> Akamai, various mail anti-abuse working groups (now
> https://www.m3aawg.org/ which I'm not currently involved with
> particularly) and running personal and corporate mail servers
> for most of that time.

With experiences like that, you should be already well on your way to
taking care of this: 

https://www.spamhaus.org/css/removal/record/2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe25:c4ae

Your emails keep going into Spam/Bulk folders. :)

Best wishes,

-Jim P.

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Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-04-05 22:00 +0200
  Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-05 22:20 +0200
    Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2021-04-05 23:10 +0200
    Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-04-06 01:50 +0200
      Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2021-04-06 02:00 +0200
        Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-04-06 02:30 +0200
          Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2021-04-06 02:40 +0200
      Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-06 03:00 +0200
        Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-04-06 03:40 +0200
          Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-06 04:00 +0200
    Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-04-06 08:40 +0200
      Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-06 14:20 +0200

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