Effective Spam Defense with Apache Against Malicious Robots

For just about as long as the commercial Internet has existed, SPAM email has been the bane of users worldwide. The harder and harder we try to fight the spammers and keep our email addresses out of their hands, the smarter . . . For just about as long as the commercial Internet has existed, SPAM email has been the bane of users worldwide. The harder and harder we try to fight the spammers and keep our email addresses out of their hands, the smarter they get and the harder they fight back. One example of peoples attempts to fight back is the large numbers of This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., etc email addresses you find on Usenet and web based communities these days. Worse yet, many people hold back from contributing to online discussions for fear their email address will be available for evil web spiders (I call them Spiderts - A web spider with a Catbert type personality) to harvest and exploit from mailing list archives.

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