Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:46:05 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: DMVN <dmvn@mccme.ru> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail archives: e-mail addresses protection Message-ID: <20051210024605.GA6622@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <33855407.20051209104455@mccme.ru> References: <33855407.20051209104455@mccme.ru>
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On 2005-12-09 10:44, DMVN <dmvn@mccme.ru> wrote: > Greetings! > > I'v just dicovered that all FreeBSD mail archives are absolutely free > to access from WWW. These letters contain real e-mail addresses, so > they can be easily captured by spam robots and then used to send ads. > That's not good at all, I think. So I recommend to store e-mails in > slightly crypted way, like, for example, > > user [at] subdomain [dot] domain > > Our russian webmasters often use such tricks and achived a great > success in the battles with spamers. Are you sure this really helps? I mean, how difficult is it to use something like this in an automated manner? For instance: % flame:/home/keramida$ sed -E \ % -e 's/[[:space:]]*[^[:alpha:]]at[^[:alpha:]][[:space:]]*/@/' \ % -e 's/[[:space:]]*[^[:alpha:]](dot|\.)[^[:alpha:]][[:space:]]/./g' \ % <<EOF % user [at] subdomain [dot] domain % EOF % user@subdomain.domain % flame:/home/keramida$
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