Where spam comes from

Borwsing BBCi technology pages over lunch, I found this interesting article on "Where spam comes from".

Heading over to the CDT website, I found the report itself.

The report is the result of a six month project entitled "Why Am I Getting All This Spam?" and the CDT findings offer Internet users insights about what online behaviour results in the most unsolicited commercial email. The report also offers to "debunk some of the myths about spam".

For those of us who would like to allow others to email us, but don't want to be spammed, the report also highlighted existance of the Email Address Encoder, which "will allow you to encode your e-mail address through the use of Character Entities, transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity." - like this:

nospamthanks@youdidntthinkidusemyrealemailaddressdidyou.com

COR IT WORKS!!!! Just View>Source to check out that ascii encoding!