On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:54:25PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: | On Thu, 2 May 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote: | > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:35:58PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: | > | > I wonder if this particular spammer has ways around this... | | Duh. :)
He's probably hoping to get a one-up on the other harvesters by telling people to get a false sense of security while really falling right into his hands. | Seriously, for a long time now I have been rather irritated at all the | people who mangle their email address when posting to public forums and | more annoyed by the idea of automatically mangling email addresses on | web pages. Yeah, I don't even bother replying to those addresses I need to manually demangle (which is all mangled addresses). | All that does is increase the return on investment of a spammer who gets | a tool that strips out that sort of thing, It can't be that hard, now, can it? | just like I have my mailer automatically do when it identifies the | style... Must not be :-). -D -- If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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