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Originally Posted by colr
If all html emails are w3c verified...
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...there wouldn't be any html email in your inbox. Who checks his/her HTML newsletters for W3C compliance?
IMHO, you just shoudn't disclose your email address. Use online forms to get people to contact you, only give your email address to people you trust, and above all - and sadly this doesn't only depends on you - when forwarding an email to a large list of recipients, put the recipients' addresses in the BCC field, not the "to" field, so that all these addresses don't end up in some spammer's emailbox, and ask your friends to do so.
The fight against spammers will be won when people will know
how to use their email boxes properly. Hearing everyone complaining about spam is so annoying when you know it all depends on us - not the spammers.
I have setup a webpage explaining how to avoid SPAM (in French, maybe I should translate it), and anytime I receive a (forwarded) email with a long list of recipients in the "to" or the "CC" field, I forward them all the URL of the page, and I make sure all their addresses are in the BCC field. Call me a spammer if you like, but it's for a good cause. :)