From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 00:34:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D07237B401; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:34:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D6943FBF; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: from envy.homeunix.com ([4.47.68.94]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030511073447.ZGTI2239.out003.verizon.net@envy.homeunix.com>; Sun, 11 May 2003 02:34:47 -0500 Received: from soupnazi.org (lust.pdx.soupnazi.org [192.168.1.2]) by envy.homeunix.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4B7Yij2031668; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:34:42 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Doug Barton From: Jim Mock In-Reply-To: <20030510144437.D5056@znfgre.qbhto.arg> Message-Id: <079143BE-8383-11D7-A664-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [4.47.68.94] at Sun, 11 May 2003 02:34:47 -0500 cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spammers X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 07:34:49 -0000 On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 02:56 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On Fri, 9 May 2003, Scott A. Moberly wrote: >> suggestion for display of ports web-side >> >> s/@/ at /g >> >> or someother obscure mix??? > > Anything that you can visually identify and decode with minimal > effort, spammers can (and probably already have) as well. For > instance, "foo at bar dot com" is well known to be totally useless. It > would help if people who want to contribute to this thread did some > research first. :) > > One thing that does seem to work for personal web pages is to put your > email address in a graphic. That at least raises the bar quite a bit. A few weeks ago, I started using the entity for @ (#&64;) on my site, and the amount of spam I've received since then has been quite a bit less than it used to be. I suppose it could be a coincidence though :-) - jim -- - jim mock mij@{soupnazi|opendarwin}.org jim@{bsdnews|FreeBSD}.org - - editor in chief, BSD News: http://bsdnews.org http://soupnazi.org -