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

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On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 04:14:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 15:51:28 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> > Celejar wrote: 
> > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 14:12:07 -0400
> > > Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Celejar wrote: 
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > What's the recommended modern best practice for putting a contact email
> > > > > address on the web while avoiding having it scraped by spam / fraud
> > > > > bots?
> > > > 
> > > > Assume that every address will be hit by spammers and scammers.
> > > > Put in appropriate antispam and antimalware precautions.
> > > 
> > > 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:

And what is their "source"? Judging by current spam pattern on the email
server I administer, cloudflare (and sendgrid, google, MS) are a big
contributer to spam by sneaking mail by dnsbl filter. They are rather a
big part of the problem than part of an solution.


> 
> "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."

<cynical>Sure, bud!</cynical>


> 
> https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170016-What-is-Email-Address-Obfuscation-
>

-H

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Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com

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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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