Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:36:52 -0800 From: Thomas Repantis <trep@cs.ucr.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM!! Message-ID: <20031123013652.GB5637@angeldust.chaos> In-Reply-To: <1069547316.722.30.camel@klamath> References: <20031122203032.B4A7C43FB1@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1069535527.722.15.camel@klamath> <20031122235612.GC4757@angeldust.chaos> <1069547316.722.30.camel@klamath>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:28:36AM +0100, Andreas Kohn wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 00:56, Thomas Repantis wrote: > > Can't this archiving take place in a more intelligent manner? For example > > using "user host.org", instead of "user at host.org", "user[at]host.org" > > or (Goddess forbid!) user@host.org. > > What would that change? It would just be another form of saying > "user@host.org" without saying "user@host.org". I cannot think of an easy way for a robot to detect "user host.org" or "user host org", without harvesting many irrelevant things. On the other hand "user@host.org" is blatantly obvious, even for a robot. > Personally I think using some sort of spam filters should work quite > well. I use filtering myself, but this is fighting the problem at its very end. Thomas -- "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and -if possible- speak a few reasonable words." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/wA80t+QwXYyWj/oRArTmAJ9+yYSFBIKxWTgsHYDzGkkgO+Hb1ACeIrNe lO4UY7i1Xz3eR/UXxRG3y0o= =+gJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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