From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 18:51:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C74AD95F; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "ma.sdf.org", Issuer "ma.sdf.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0985371; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ma.sdf.org (IDENT:U2FsdGVkX18wxxLFIK0qyk+i4PV4+JDGSO4mNvMNxOk@ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) by sdf.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t3AIp5Sd017058; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:51:05 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:51:05 -0500 From: cpet To: Rich Kulawiec Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website In-Reply-To: <20150410181255.GA2891@gsp.org> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> <20150410181255.GA2891@gsp.org> Message-ID: <7395751a3c754c5ed35bf8e0d8ab601d@sdf.org> X-Sender: cpet@sdf.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:51:09 -0000 On 2015-04-10 13:12, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > This may be well-intentioned, but it demonstrates a nearly-complete > lack of understanding of how spammers' address-harvesters work. > > The techniques in use in the field are very sophisticated and unlikely > to > be defeated by anyone who hasn't spent at least a decade studying them > in detail. (And even then: probably not. The existence of hundreds of > millions of 'bots changed the game markedly and there is no undoing > that.) > > The ONLY reasonable course of action, at this point, is to presume that > all email addresses are either (a) in the hands of spammers or (b) will > be in their hands soon, and plan defenses accordingly. Any other > approach > is doomed to fail and should be instantly dismissed with prejudice: the > only people it will impede in the slightest are non-spammers. > > ---rsk > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I don't know the sudden thought that I won 237 Million makes me happy :P