Winning Strategies for Online Success!
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As your website becomes more popular and your traffic increases, spammers will visit you as well. They look for hyperlinks to email addresses and for forms to exploit.
Having a hyperlink containing your email address on your website is akin to leaving the key in the front door of your house and expecting only your family and friends to use it. Spammers have software that crawl websites looking for hyperlinks containing mailto. When one is found it is captured and logged. From there it can send spam to your email address and/or use it as the Reply To email address of spam going to others. The first scenario is a nuisance while the second one becomes a Public Relations issue.
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