Traditionally the main source of e-mail addresses for spammers has been from crawling web pages in the same way as search engines. Addresses published on the web are likely to receive more spam than those that are not.
To reduce this problem, two methods been used to avoid publishing e-mail addresses: hiding the published address, or replacing addresses with a contact form. Here we explain how both make poor choices for the usability of your website.
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There’s been a lot of talk on the UK-Riders mailing list about the tendency for discussions to be subverted into an argument for the use of free and open source software (FOSS). The voluntary and charitable sectors are a difficult audience. As Free Software proponents, we feel that our software is a superior choice, but we can quickly forget that the people we work with have a much more pragmatic view of the world; they have problems that need solving. Here are some tips for advocating Free Software to charities and volunteers.
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If you’ve been running a WordPress powered blog or website for any length of time you’re almost certain to have been frustrated by a deluge of comments and pings promoting products, other sites or just filling your pages with gibberish. Here are three tips that will reduce, or even completely eliminately this time wasting problem.
- Disable comments completely
- Allow only registered users to comment
- Install a spam fighting plugin – Spam Karma 2
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