Re: Solid facts to promote Ada

[18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)]

Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<3f98e741_1@news.tm.net.my>...
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> > On 2003-10-23, Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I've just made available my paper, "Software Development Reengineering - 
> >>An Experience Report", on my web site "a d r i a n h o e . c o m" (sorry 
> >>for the spaces, gotta avoid spammers :)
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, your web page is: http://www.adrianhoe.com/
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> By giving the actual url like above, it opens up a big vulnerability for 
> spammers. Today, spammers use a software so effectively to collect email 
> addresses and urls (and email addresses from urls) automatically. That's 
> why I put spaces in the url, hopefully, spam software is not intelligent 
> enough to recognize it. :)

Well, Preben might be glad to know that I agree with him on this one
(hope that doesn't induce him to change his mind!). If you have a URL
with information you want to disseminate, then you want to broadcast
that URL as widely as possible, and you want to post it correctly so
the reader can simply click on it.

But you also want to keep your correct email addresses off the webpage
so they cannot be harvested by a robot. *That's* where you use
bot-proofing tricks. Another option is to use sneakemail addresses
(http://sneakemail.com). These are randomly generated addresses that
forward to your real email address. If you start getting too much spam
at the random address, you simply dispose of it and get a new one.

Russ
http://RussP.org