From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 24 19:48:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC3F16A423; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:48:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E2C43D5A; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:48:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms076.mailsrvcs.net ([192.168.1.1]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IWN007KYDOBL0Q5@vms042.mailsrvcs.net>; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:48:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:48:11 -0600 (CST) From: Sergey Babkin To: Luigi Rizzo , John Baldwin Message-id: <16124661.1463151143229691692.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: babkin@users.sf.net List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:48:14 -0000 >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