From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 07:35:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF3E37B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 07:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (yadt.demon.co.uk [158.152.4.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7B0443FCB for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 07:35:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidt@yadt.co.uk) Received: (qmail 33624 invoked from network); 11 May 2003 14:35:30 -0000 Received: from gattaca.local.yadt.co.uk (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (qmailr@10.0.0.2) by xfiles.yadt.co.uk with SMTP; 11 May 2003 14:35:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 1490 invoked by uid 1000); 11 May 2003 14:35:29 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 15:35:29 +0100 From: David Taylor To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030511143529.GA1389@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: ports@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030510144437.D5056@znfgre.qbhto.arg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Spammers X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 14:35:42 -0000 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"