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Review my startup idea: Reduce spam sent to company's contact e-mail

4 pointsby bonzoqover 12 years ago
I experienced it myself, from time to time we get spam sent to our company's contact e-mail displayed on the front page.<p>One work around is replacing the '@' character with 'at' or something similar. However we did not want to do that, as we wanted a clickable link.<p>I think a good solution to this problem would be an e-mail address that changes periodically, say from: contact_2323@company.abc.com to contact_23a2@company.abc.com. where abc.com (for example) would be the domain of my startup, and company the name of a customer. This changing e-mail would only be valid for a limited time.<p>The idea is to provide a piece of code that changes the e-mail and handling redirections. What do you think?

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Chris_Xover 12 years ago
Here's a simple solution that works: <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/emailriddler/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dynamicdrive.com/emailriddler/</a><p>No startup needed.
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amikazmiover 12 years ago
If all you want is a clickable link, you can set it with javascript- almost every "real" person runs javascript, and most of the spam bots don't.
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pavel_lishinover 12 years ago
The problem is that if I save contact_2323@example.com in my address book, and it changes two weeks later, I suddenly stop receiving responses from you, and have no idea why.<p>Also, how is this a startup idea?
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