All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Went out with a few friends tonight, and got to talking with one of them about a site he was working on for his sister: Becca Bottoms. Long story short, he wanted to display actual email addresses (rather than a contact form). I told him to encode them so they wouldn’t get spam - well, at least not as much spam as an unencoded email address. FYI: There’s more than one way to encode an email address.

I wanted to explain how to prevent spam in this entry, but at the same time explain the spam-filtering technology you should adopt if you didn’t know about it already. Most people I know want to block senders so they don’t get spam from that person anymore.

Disclaimer: I tried to be neat with all this information, but I think I failed quite miserably. (Insert nervous chuckle here.) In any case, I wanted to pass along the basic information of spam and prevention, and I felt this did an adequate job. (more…)