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Re: Scr.im » Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

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Maybe give reCAPTCHA Mailhide a try if you want to use a system with a more sophisticated Captcha system for this kind of thing: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/

Could this instead be turned into a challenge response system.

mailhide+ would give you a disposable email, the person sending would use that, get back a captcha link, solve the captcha and your email is forwarded on. Optionally the sender is then whitelisted for sending to your address, further options would reply with your direct email address once the challenge had been completed.

This would mean that you'd have an email address to give people when asked for an email address (rather than a website).

Re: Scr.im » Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

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Yeah, I don't understand how that helps with the goal of protecting my email...

If anything, it will do the opposite. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=http://scr.im/ 95,000 results. Easily scriptable. Any spammers out there want a list of email addresses of people who are interested in spam protection?

Quickly scanning a few randomly selected search result pages revealed exactly zero links to email addresses protected by scr.im.

Re: Scr.im » Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

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post #22

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If anything, it will do the opposite. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=http://scr.im/ 95,000 results. Easily scriptable. Any spammers out there want a list of email addresses of people who are interested in spam protection?

Quickly scanning a few randomly selected search result pages revealed exactly zero links to email addresses protected by scr.im.

First two pages of results:

http://scr.im/yuri

http://scr.im/john

http://scr.im/stevie

http://scr.im/palmynthteu

http://scr.im/mrintech

http://scr.im/jffcrmr

Re: Scr.im » Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anything, it will do the opposite. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=http://scr.im/ 95,000 results. Easily scriptable. Any spammers out there want a list of email addresses of people who are interested in spam protection?

Quickly scanning a few randomly selected search result pages revealed exactly zero links to email addresses protected by scr.im.

You didn't look very hard then, there's loads.

Re: Scr.im » Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

#25
post #13

Maybe give reCAPTCHA Mailhide a try if you want to use a system with a more sophisticated Captcha system for this kind of thing: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/

Could this instead be turned into a challenge response system. mailhide+ would give you a disposable email, the person sending would use that, get back a captcha link, solve the captcha and your email is forwarded on. Optionally the sender is then whitelisted for sending to your address, further options would reply with your direct email address once the challenge had been completed. This would mean that you'd have a…

Challenge/response emails have largely been dropped. If you implement such a system you end up on blacklists for generating backscatter. If SPF/DKIM ever become ubiquitous then we'll be able to look at using those sorts of systems again.
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