Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:28:21 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website Message-ID: <55292175.3000308@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150410181255.GA2891@gsp.org> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> <20150410181255.GA2891@gsp.org>
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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 Doesn't take 10 years of study to know that any email address visible on a public website is a target for harvesting. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ shows the ports maintainers email address. The ports maintainers email address should not be part of the Makefile, but should should stay in the ports manual.
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