这篇文章将告诉您什么是垃圾邮件机器人(Spambots)以及如何处理它们。总而言之，垃圾邮件机器人(Spambots)对您邮件中的所有垃圾负责！继续阅读以了解它们是什么、它们如何工作以及如何阻止垃圾邮件机器人。
我记得禁用我的一个电子邮件ID(IDs)只是因为它只收到了未经请求的邮件。那是一个月前的事了。有没有想过这些人如何获得您的电子邮件 ID 来向您发送垃圾邮件？垃圾邮件(Spam)通常是不需要的和无根据的电子邮件。让我们看看垃圾邮件机器人如何收集电子邮件ID(IDs)。
什么是垃圾邮件机器人
垃圾邮件机器人是一种特殊程序，可在Internet上抓取发布在社交网站、讨论区、评论、联系我们页面和其他地方的电子邮件地址。由于电子邮件 ID 的格式是唯一的，因此更容易编写程序来收集该格式的任何内容。
它始于寻找“ mailto ”（用于在网络上显示电子邮件ID的(IDs)HTML表达式）的垃圾邮件机器人。一个例子可能是<a href=”mailto: [email protected]”>contact us</a>[email protected] ”>contact us</a>。
在此示例中，“ mailto :”后面的数据是电子邮件 ID。这将向查看者显示“联系我们(Contact Us)”，单击时会打开您的默认电子邮件客户端，其中电子邮件地址位于“ 收件人(To)”框中。
虽然许多人仍然使用“mailto”标签，但其他人则使用文字而不是符号，这样垃圾邮件机器人就无法理解它们。例如，abc at xyz dot com。但是，如果垃圾邮件机器人可以被编程为以[email protected]([email protected])的形式收集所有数据，那么它们也可以被编程为检查诸如“ abc at xyz dot com ”或“ abc[at]xyz[dot]com ”之类的格式.
换句话说，垃圾邮件程序是考虑到所有类型的格式的程序，这些格式可用于在Internet上显示电子邮件地址并将其存储以用于发送垃圾邮件。
最安全的形式是使用包含您的电子邮件地址的图形。由于它是图形，因此垃圾邮件机器人无法读取它。例如，您只需在MS Paint或Adobe Photoshop上输入您的电子邮件地址，然后在您的(Adobe Photoshop)联系我们(Contact Us)页面上使用该图形。但是，论坛和评论讨论并不总是在签名中提供图形使用，因此没有多少人可以使用此技巧。
垃圾邮件机器人可以定义为“在Internet上运行（爬行）以收集个人或组织的电子邮件地址的自动化程序，这些个人或组织可以使用收集的电子邮件地址发送未经请求的（垃圾邮件）电子邮件”。
如何处理垃圾邮件
对付垃圾邮件的方法并不多。对付垃圾邮件的最佳措施是不要在Internet上的任何地方发布您的电子邮件地址。但如今这几乎是不可能的，除非你不想被任何人联系。在某处或其他地方，您必须提供您的电子邮件地址——尤其是在这些社交分享的日子里！
对付垃圾邮件的措施之一是使用上述图形(use graphics)。如果它是一个图形，垃圾邮件爬虫程序会离开它，假设它不重要。但同样，在自己的网站上使用图形很容易，但公共讨论板/聊天室、讨论论坛、评论表格等不允许您发布图形。在这种情况下，图形方法会失败。
另一种方法是乱码电子邮件地址(garble email address)并仅在显示网页时正确呈现。例如， abc[break][at][break]xyz[break][dot][break]com 存储为不同的部分。只有当有人使用并通过验证码访问网站时，电子邮件地址才会按顺序排列并显示。
另一种尚未破坏的方法是使用 ASCII 字符(usage of ASCII characters)而不是 @ 和点符号。例如，[email protected]将表示为 [email protected]。在示例中，@ 表示@ 符号。但是一旦垃圾邮件程序被编程为接受@作为@符号，这也很容易破解。此外，人类访问者也可能会感到困惑，并且可能找不到它作为您的电子邮件地址。
在论坛和评论中发布电子邮件地址时，可以使用 munging(use munging)。方法是在电子邮件地址中插入一些人类访问者可以理解但垃圾邮件机器人无法理解的字符。一个例子可能是 abc[ Remove ThisBeforeSending]@xyz .com。另一个示例可能是“abc[at]xyz### .com（在发送前从电子邮件 ID 中删除#）”。(Remove)访问者会明白，这部分必须被删除，而垃圾邮件机器人将把整个东西拿走，这对收割机没有任何用处，因为发送到整个 ID 的电子邮件将被退回。但这也有点冒险，因为计算机领域的新手可能会感到困惑并且可能无法与您联系。
我使用的一种方法是使用单独的电子邮件 ID 在 Internet 上公开赠送，并使用单独的电子邮件 ID(use a separate email ID for giving away on the Internet)用于家庭和工作。然后，您可以对公共电子邮件 ID 运行过滤器，以仅接收来自某些网站和论坛的消息。这需要一些工作（创建规则并在每次在网站上发布时更新它）但工作正常。规则可以是：“将(Move)收到的邮件移至垃圾(Junk)邮件，除非发件人是;;”。这样，只有真正的邮件会到达您的收件箱，而其他邮件会进入垃圾(Junk)文件夹。您可以经常检查垃圾(Junk)文件夹，看看规则或邮件客户端是否将任何重要的电子邮件转移到垃圾(Junk)文件夹。如果是，您可以将其添加到受信任的发件人或修改相关规则。
希望这些提示对您有用如果您知道更多防止垃圾邮件机器人获取您的电子邮件 ID 的方法，请与我们分享。(I hope you find the tips useful If you know more methods to prevent Spambots from picking up your email ID, please share with us.)
What are Spambots? How to deal with them?
This post will tell you what are Spambots and hоw you can dеal with them. In a line, Spambots are responsible for all that junk іn your mail! Read on to find out what they are, how they work and how to stop spambots.
I remember disabling one of my email IDs just because it was not receiving anything but unsolicited mail. That was a month ago. Ever wondered how those people get your email ID to send you spam emails? Spam is generally, unwanted and unwarranted email(s). Let us see how spambots collect email IDs.
What are Spambots
Spambots are special programs that crawl the Internet for email addresses posted in social networking sites, discussion boards, comments, contact-us pages and elsewhere. Since the format of the email ID is unique, it is easier to write programs to collect anything in that format.
It started from spambots looking for “mailto” (HTML expressions that are used for presenting email IDs on the web). One example could be <a href=”mailto: [email protected]”>contact us</a>.
In this example, the data following “mailto:” is the email ID. This would look Contact Us to the viewers and when clicked, opens your default email client with the email address in the To box.
While many people still use the “mailto” tag, others resorted to using words instead of symbols so that spambots do not understand them. For example, abc at xyz dot com. But if spambots can be programmed to harvest all data in the form of [email protected], then they can also be programmed to check for formats such as “abc at xyz dot com” or “abc[at]xyz[dot]com“.
In other words, spambots are programs that take into account all types of formats that can be used to display email addresses on the Internet and store it for spamming purposes.
The safest form is to use a graphic that contains your email address. Since it is a graphic, the spambots cannot read it. For example, you simply type your email address on MS Paint or Adobe Photoshop and use that graphic on your Contact Us page. However, forums and comment discussions do not always provide graphic usage in the signature so not many can make use of this tip.
Spambots can be this defined as “automated programs that run (crawl) on the Internet to collect email addresses for a person or organization who can use the collected email addresses to send unsolicited (spam) email”.
How To Deal With Spambots
There are not many methods to deal with spambots. The best measure against spambots is not to post your email address anywhere on the Internet. But that is practically impossible these days, unless you do not want to be contacted by anyone. Somewhere or the other, you have to give out your email address – especially in these days of social sharing!
One of the measures against spambots is to use graphics as explained above. If it is a graphic, the spambot crawlers leave it, assuming it is not important. But again, using graphics on own websites is easy but public discussion boards/chat rooms, discussion forums, comment forms etc. do not allow you to post graphics. The graphic method fails in such cases.
Another method is to garble email address and render it properly only when the webpage is displayed. For example, the abc[break][at][break]xyz[break][dot][break]com is stored as different parts. Only when someone visits the website using and passing the captcha, the email address is arranged in a sequence and displayed.
One more method that is not yet broken is usage of ASCII characters instead of @ and dot symbols. For example, [email protected] will be represented as [email protected]. In the example, @ represents the @ sign. But this too is easy to crack once spambots are programmed to accept @ as @ sign. Plus, human visitors too may get confused and may not find it as your email address.
While posting email addresses in forums and comments, one can use munging. The method is to insert some characters in the email address that the human visitors can understand but not the spambots. One example could be abc[RemoveThisBeforeSending]@xyz.com. Another example could be “abc[at]xyz###.com (Remove # from the email ID before sending)”. The visitors will understand that the portion has to be removed while spambots will take the entire thing which won’t be of any use to harvester as emails sent to the whole ID will bounce. But this too, is a bit risky, as newbies to the computer field may get confused and may not be able to contact you.
One of the methods I have used is to use a separate email ID for giving away on the Internet in public and separate ones for home and work. Then, you can run filters on the public email ID to receive messages only from certain websites and forums. This takes a little work (creating the rule and updating it every time you give it out on a website) but works fine. The rule can be like: “Move incoming mail to Junk except if the sender is <website1>;<website2>;<forum1>”. That way, only genuine mail will reach your inbox while others go to the Junk folder. You may check the Junk folder frequently to see if the rule or the mail client transferred any important email to the Junk folder. If it did, you can add it to trusted senders or modify the related rule.
I hope you find the tips useful If you know more methods to prevent Spambots from picking up your email ID, please share with us.
