to support the stop spam-campaign of schockwellenreiter antville has got a new macro: <% fakemail %> generates a list of 20 (by default) faked email-addresses (you can vary the number by using the attribute number).

<% fakemail number="23" delimiter=" | " %> oupl@huofdbfagjcjr.edu | atvrbldop@yjhxlcmdqitziyjezab.tv | oxdybe@xuecvdwxxlybiiqezlf.st | mwobqbtcf@eekivlfdojy.eu | nrxuv@rflhndiovjoccq.ca | kpooo@tinbxeyqllmnuppdcbdl.pl | kiydt@qszhichtngzjodbbsycdvx.com | zrq@shdjjluwfmsnmdoiy.dk | puocsl@vxmbdlbu.br | ulasn@hkehqlqwimlltugntoodd.br | eftirgylm@vgemkvnwihso.net | khblgx@pcfghneqwzljkyid.st | lgn@rduhsnqhny.ar | mippw@bpljawvldagkbltkfjnmvei.mil | pfftkb@loykbpdytgate.com | zctgwygdp@himxorffkinmvwlfdqw.ca | pfqas@qemjepkkmfsblulxtlqy.ch | djgevbjs@yvugvjpqyrmmhbgaxniqv.dk | qdfwdmbtsg@vfeckdsqlnsqfryqc.eu | mvehrp@usmpmkafwudnmkgtfwru.br | psplzx@ygbqfdygjbleuztpoktmuri.de | zopnb@qphtrlqdoaqxnaodb.de | jjqgul@segrxdpfhudrw.es

thanks to hr for contributing!

danke!

i added a general limit of max. 50 addresses (ie. values higher than that in the number parameter will be ignored). morever, you can define the delimiter with param.delimiter. and the last delimiter is not displayed anymore.

this is definitely an interesting idea to contaminate spammer's databases. however, for them it probably is still enough to have one valid e-mail among a million non-existion ones (sending mail is pretty cheap, innit?).

so my question is if you would like to see a macro that encodes an e-mail address as html entities? (as i do it here, for example.)

it might provide at least a temporary protection of an e-mail address – until the point the spambots translate the entities back (but then we surely will come with a new strategy :)

to make these generated adresses invisible without changing my parameter for link-colors...

a spammer can very easyly check if the addresses are valid. He only check if a entry exist in the DNS and if not ignore the address!

das Macro einfach irgendwo in eine Story auf den Leuchtturm?

doing something like this is nothing but harmful. firstly, the arguments about why this doesn't help at all, which are presented here (see above/below), are true. secondly, while it would be cheap for a spammer to check the fake domains for validity, spammers won't even care. they will send out loads and loads of spam to fake addresses and waste bandwidth. they will generate the cross-product of all user-names (the part before the @) and all host-names (the part after the @), send mail to all those addresses and consume even more bandwidth. now my mail server won't just get e-mail to foo@mydomain.org and bar@mydomain.org, it will also have to deal with e-mail to nrotdhhbb@mydomain.org, wenmy@mydomain.org and so on, wasting processor time and stuff, which makes the effects of this approach even worse.

filtering spam out is a way to deal with it. but this idea is nonsense. please stop it at once.

Unfortunately we didnt consider the following problem: the adresses are generated at each request, therefor RSS-readers assume the story is new and mark it as unread. I now have a dozen unread stories in NetNewsWire and can't get rid of them. The only solution would be to not execute this macro in the rss-feed - possible?