"Phillip J. Eby" wrote Won't this just convince spammers that:
1) Their spam is "working", because "people are clicking on the link", and
So? More fool them - hopefully they'll spend more money on this useless technique, and go broke, sooner.
2) If there's a unique ID in the URL, it will confirm that your address is live and that you're a sucker for whatever it is they mailed you. :)
I figure there's little or no point to trying to hide addresses from spammers. Unless you never ever post to a mailing list, or to anyone off-site, and you've got a non-obvious username, they're going to get your address anyway.
Of course, I also suppose it's possible that if enough people install a spam filter that works this way, the resulting "spambayes effect" might crash a few of their servers. :)
Well, if nothing else, the useless load on their webserver helps push a little of the cost of spam back towards the spammer. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.