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Re: Email Harvesting from LUGNET sidebars
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 4 Mar 2005 05:23:49 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
> > I just wanted the Lugnet admin team to be aware.
> > I notice that several email addresses are now posted on the Admin sidebar pages.
> > Perhaps it would be best to add some spam-busting features [1] to those
> > addresses unless everyone listed is okay with receiving even more SPAM email
> > than they already receive.
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> Thanks Kevin Salm,
> I just updated them with the SPAM block. Do you know if the spam block I used
> should he sufficient, or should I randomize it more?
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> -Lenny
Your change should work well enough. Being that you have used plain text rather
than linkable mailto: HTML is good, too. I think that is the one major change I
need to make to my email address on the .market sidebars.
I don't know anything about email address harvesting, but I would guess that
plain text email addresses are NOT subject to automated harvesting as those
coded with html.
__Kevin Salm__
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| (...) Don't be so sure. Many harvesters look for "@" and surrounding text to see if it looks like an email address. And still others just look for the words "at" and "dot" in close proximity. Don't underestimate the cunning of people willing to piss (...) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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