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Chris Barnes writes:
>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.
I will bet it'll be used, but will arrive lowercased in most cases.
I have seen addresses munged as follows (perl code to illustrate):
s/nospam//i;
s/spam//i;
tr/A-Z/a-z/;
Also note: some spamware will skip any addresses that contain any
of these strings:
spam
abuse
postmaster
.gov
ftc
- --j.
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