Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:48:11 -0600 (CST) From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: email mangling (Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls cmp.c extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h pri Message-ID: <16124661.1463151143229691692.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net>
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>On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:38:02PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote: >... >> Submitted by: Andrzej Tobola ato at iem dot pw dot edu dot pl > >i understand that this is an attempt to prevent email harvesting, >but don't you think that such programs will be smart enough >to recognize sequences of 'foo at bar dot baz' and convert >back to regular email addresses ? :) How about replacing the dot with another character? Like, someone@here.com would become someone@here*com. The harvesters would likely catch up to it as well but it would take them some time. Or for a little more confusion add a fake suffix or prefix seperated by a dot, like: someone@here*com.com or someone@xxx.here*com. -SB
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