request for removal of mailto:

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.09.30 09:26:46 +0900, Tadashi Yanagihara wrote:

> I have submitted a patch to the FreeBSD ports tree, 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/courier-imap/Makefile?rev=1.34&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> but at the same time, started to receive large amounts of spam mail, 
> which I think is due to the mailto: link set to my mail address.
> Is it possible to remove the mailto: tag from my mail address?

As far as I know there is no simple way to do this at the moment.  That
said, I also think in general that "the damage is done" since the email
address is out there in many email achieves on the web.

I don't think it makes much difference for the spammer harverster
programs, if there is a mailto: or not when the email address is there
(of coure I don't know for sure, but I doubt it).

In the long run I think you would be much better of installing a spam
filter (like SpamAssasin).  I catches more than 99% of the spam I get.

Sorry that I can't give you a better answer.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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