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Date:      Sun, 11 May 2003 15:35:29 +0100
From:      David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spammers
Message-ID:  <20030511143529.GA1389@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20030510144437.D5056@znfgre.qbhto.arg>
References:  <20030508205123.GD17270@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030508221900.GA17740@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030509062805.GB19900@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030509201306.GA22910@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030509203926.GA17604@mail.karamazov.org> <20030510144437.D5056@znfgre.qbhto.arg>

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On Sat, 10 May 2003, Doug Barton wrote:
> Anything that you can visually identify and decode with minimal effort,
> spammers can (and probably already have) as well. For instance, "foo at
> bar dot com" is well known to be totally useless. It would help if people
> who want to contribute to this thread did some research first. :)
> 
> One thing that does seem to work for personal web pages is to put your
> email address in a graphic. That at least raises the bar quite a bit.
> 

Sadly, it raises the bar above lynx users too.  I for one don't want to
have to go into X just to be able to find what e-mail address to report a
bug to :)

-- 
David Taylor
davidt@yadt.co.uk
"The future just ain't what it used to be"



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