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[scottobear]

Now they're sending spam about spam protection services:

Dear Email user,

Your email address sysop@scottobear.com was harvested by a SPAM robot. It got your address from the webpage http://www.scottobear.com

For more information about SPAM Robots and how you can protect yourself, Click Here

Sincerely,
Champ Mitchell
Anti-Spam Services
http://www.email-cloak.com

Dingalings.... The funny thing is that the spam protection they are offering (for $8.95, no less) is just a piece of JavaScript that splits email addresses so they cannot be gathered. Here's the same thing for free:

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<a href="mailto:' + 'name@' + 'youremail.com' + '">' + 'name@' + 'youremail.com' + '</a>');
</script>

Just replace "name" and "youremail.com" with your information and you're good to go.

Comments

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yup! it is a mailto link that hides form bots.

Re:

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yay! my pleasure to pass along helpful info!

[artemii.livejournal.com]

< A HREF="mailto:postmaster@[127.0.0.1]" >< /a > included in sites also sends the spam back to the spammer's postmaster.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

heh heh heh... that's a great one!!