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Re: Email Harvesting from LUGNET sidebars
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 4 Mar 2005 05:36:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Salm wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > -Lenny
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> 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.
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> 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.
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 you off.
ROSCO
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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