For management and admin folk.

I run a forum elsewhere and have noticed something in the behaviour of the spam/phishing/link posters that you might find useful.



I had someone attempt to sign up for 'my' forum and things did not synch quite right. I checked the email address and it came up fine but it was for a piano mover in Oakland while the ip was Quezon city in the Philippines.



It seems the bleeps are scanning company sites for public listings of emails and then using them to create forum accounts. I expect this is for link advertising etc but thought it might be useful to pass this on as none of us want any more of those idiots than we have to. It might be a reasonable move to stop listing email addresses publically.