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[ale] Webcrawlers can harvest ALE Archive E-mail Addresses
- Subject: [ale] Webcrawlers can harvest ALE Archive E-mail Addresses
- From: matthew.brown at cordata.com (Matthew Brown)
- Date: Thu Feb 10 12:53:04 2005
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]> <1108047086.9098.5.camel@blue> <[email protected]>
Nicely made point.
Best Regards,
Matthew Brown
CorData, Inc. -- Linux solutions for business
o: 770-795-0089
On Feb 10, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> understanding is that email addresses are so easy to harvest right
> now, that few harvesters bother trying to unobfuscate the email
> addresses. I suspect that even something as stupid as replacing all
> '@' symbols with ' AT ' in the archives would significantly reduce my
> spam. Doing funky stuff with hex codes might work even better.
> Spammers know that using strange spellings and characters can fool
> many filters. Similarly, I bet the same tricks would fool many
> spammers.
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