Spambots only grab email addresses. The addresses 
are stored in databases maintained by the person 
harvesting the email addresses. The person who 
maintains the database may either generate and send 
out their own spam, generate and send out spam for 
others, or sell their database of email addresses.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 25 Apr 2003, at 13:03, Susan Friesen wrote:

> Thanks for the input everyone. I will definitely change
> the email addy's with the ASCII equivalent; however, I'm
> wondering if it's too late? How do these spam bots work?
> Do they save the emails gleaned and keep pounding out the
> spam, or do they harvest new addy's continually from the
> same sources?
> 
> Susan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> > [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of David
> > Shaver Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:10 PM To:
> > hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org Subject: RE: shared server and
> > s*p*a*m
> >
> >
> > My host, Pair Networks, has spam assassin installed and
> > it works good but can be overzealous even at the default
> > setting. You can at your option have Outlook move all
> > the messages flagged as junk by Spam Assassin to your
> > delete folder. A front line of defense, which is all
> > that has been necessary for me, is to simply change the
> > @ in all email addresses to its ASCII equivalent of
> > @
> >
> > David A. Shaver
> > DaShaver Graphics & Web Design
> > www.dashaver.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> > [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of Susan
> > Friesen Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:54 PM To: HWG
> > Techniques Subject: shared server and s*p*a*m
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> > Before I approach my web host, I wanted to find out if
> > anyone knows if it is possible to control s*p*a*m if I'm
> > on a shared server environment. Yes, we have our emails
> > posted on our website and would rather not resort to
> > removing them.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do, or ask my provider to do
> > (that they would be *willing* to do), to help lessen the
> > ever growing s*p*a*m emails we're getting? It's getting
> > ridiculous! I'm just not sure what my options are....
> >
> > We're on a Unix box, hosted by Dezines, if that helps
> > any :)
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Susan
> >
> 
> 


 

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