Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:12:55 -0400 From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website Message-ID: <20150410181255.GA2891@gsp.org> In-Reply-To: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com>
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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
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