I considered that, which is why I went from adding one character to three. The odds of me hitting on a domain that exists are pretty slim. Maybe I'll grab all of the domains out of the archives and see how many actually exist. I'll bet it's less than .5%.
The site's at http://blueplanes.sthomas.net/ (click on "Index by thread") if anyone's interested in seeing it. | -----Original Message----- | From: Tony L. Svanstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:17 AM | To: Steve Thomas | Cc: SpamAssassin List | Subject: RE: [SAtalk] You have a secret admirer | | | On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 the voices made Steve Thomas write: | | > | As suggested before, I think it's always a good idea to rewrite email | > | addresses on the web not to look like [EMAIL PROTECTED], but, of | course, this | > | won't last for very long as e.g. sf.net's "user AT host DOT | tld" is quite | > | easy to parse to if they know what they have to look for. | > | > In the archives for a list I run, I run a cron job nightly that | opens the | > message files and checks for an <!-- ANTISPAM --> line at the top of the | > file. If it doesn't exist, it parses the file and munges the e-mail | > addresses found by adding three random characters to the domain portion. | > I.e. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" could become "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". | | NOT a good idea... what if there's an xyzexample.com domain? | | If you want to keep doing that that way then at least add the | .invalid tld at | the end. | | /Tony | -- | # Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Through knowledge towards freedom! # | # Genom kunskap mot frihet! =*= (c) 1999-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =*= # | | perl -e'print$_{$_} for sort%_=`lynx -dump svanstrom.com/t`' | | ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
