Eerie lack of spam...

[RJM62]

Has anyone else noticed an eerie lack of spam today from about 14:00 Zulu on?

Rich

 

[Unit74]

NSA has spam blockers on their system....nothing to worry about.

 

[flyingron]

Did Russia fall off the internet?

 

[jhausch]

Alibaba perhaps?

 

[F01LA]

You mean there's only Big Iron in the air now?

 

[ScottM]

Perhaps thar spammers have been boarded and had cutlass's thrusted through their scurvy hearts?

Arrgh!

 

[wanttaja]

Perhaps thar spammers have been boarded and had cutlass's thrusted through their scurvy hearts?

Arrgh!

Too good for 'em. Bastinado the buggers!

Ron Wanttajarghhh

 

[RJM62]

All I know is that my mail servers are dealing with a significantly lower amount of overall spam, and almost none of it is getting through. I had one semi-spammy email this morning to one of my webmaster@ accounts, but it was hand-written by someone who actually read or clicked the JavaScript mailto link from a browser. (Spambots can't scrape the address from the JS.)

Just as an aside, the old, simple JS to do this still works amazingly well, considering how ubiquitous it is. The bots still can't figure it out:

<script language="JavaScript">
    <!--
    var name = "user";
    var domain = "domain.tld";
    document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + name + '@' + domain + '\">');
    document.write(name + '@' + domain + '</a>');
    // -->
</script>

Where "user" and "domain.tld" are replaced by the actual email address information. It's a good way to make the email address both visible and clickable while still preventing it from being scraped. The second document.write can also be changed to some other visible thing like "click here" or "email us," etc. I'm amazed that it still works after all these years.

Rich