VonEssen, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All this relies on many assumptions. We assume spammers regularly > harvest addresses off usenet. We also assume that they clean their > list when address appears to be bad. Has anybody tested this?
Just for grins, I just began trying it. As we know, alot of people using things like [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would assume that any spammer worth their salt could write a program to strip out the munging. Other more clever might use something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] While better, a spammer could still nuke that. My presumption is that a spammer's software would look for mixed case in the address and yank out the uppercase stuff. So I just changed my address for this newsgroup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a perfectly legit address with no anti-spam munging at all - it's just using mixed case in odd places. Let's see how many spams I get addresses to the messed up address or (harder to measure) if my amount of spam goes down. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
