ORBS is overkill, so how about making our addresses a little more difficult to harvest by the spambots? I have turned on identd's DES encryption, so that pident cannot be used to harvest usernames. I have turned off sendmail's HELP command and EXPN and VRFY commands. Now, the hard part. Does anyone have time to perl program to search for all the mailto: links and change them to something like this? before: mailto:clueless at newbie.com After: mailto:clueless@newbie.com That should make it harder for spambots to hit the archives and harvest email addreses. I have turned on mod_rewrite for the known spambots <http://mosa.unity.ncsu.edu/brabec/antispam.html> out there, to direct them to the bit-bucket. I am VERY tempted to feed them bogus addresses <http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/harassment.html> Please let me know if you have time to write a perl program to change the mailto: links. Thanks. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9