On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Umm, given the subject, this is particularly vile. :-D > > Sent: 23 September 2004 16:44 > > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > > > > Sent: 23 September 2004 15:40 > > > > > <idle speculation> > > > > Hmm. I wonder if I just replaced all of the '@'s with a png > > > > of an '@', if that would foil the spammers. > > > > <pause> > > > > Nope. Wouldn't work for the text archives. > > > > </idle speculation> > > > > > > How about a big ascii-art one then? THaT WuLd BE SOOooOO B1FF!!1! > > > AND K00L!!1!2! > > > > You mean, like "`banner -c@ @`"? ;-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /win/c/> `banner -c@ @` > bash: @@@@: command not found > > AAAAAAARRRGHGHGHGHG!!!1!!!! ToO MANy QuOTEZ!:!:! ;-P~~~ Umm, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YOWTWYWT>. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo "`banner -c@ @`" > > Ugh, I can just see the following pasted command line getting mungled: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>command.com something > > LOL, I was just thinking about what would happen if someone harvested > that address and tried to spam it, and then I was thinking, hey, I > wonder.... lookee what I found! > > http://www.command.com/ Well, the e-mail address would be invalid anyway (contains a ">"), but the point was that *mangling* it would result in havoc. > > (and that's just off the top of my head, there must surely be others). > > Yeh, that's why I suggested clamping down on the chars that would be > accepted by replacing the .* with a [] charset. > > > IOW, it's not as easy as it seems at first. > > I know. Didn't even attempt to deal with emails of the form > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Sure there are lots of other corner cases too. It > was a rough approximation JFTHOI. Hmm... If this gets picked up and used, it's definite OLOCA fodder. :-D > [ There are plenty of rfc822-detecting regexen out there, although not > all of them are complete nor correct; > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=regex+rfc822 ] It might be better/easier/safer to just filter out things like "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "{date} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote" (the more common reply lead-ins) or something. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
