Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:20:01 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: babkin@users.sf.net Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@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: <86bqvvpmke.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <16124661.1463151143229691692.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net> (Sergey Babkin's message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:48:11 -0600 (CST)") References: <16124661.1463151143229691692.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net>
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Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> writes: > 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. Look, mangling email addresses to protect against spammers is about as effective and reliable as the good old "I'll pull out early, I promise" contraceptive method. Can everybody please grow up, accept the hard facts of life, and install a spam filter? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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