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Re: Virus Email
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 21 May 2003 18:51:36 GMT
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They're not clickable. That means the spammer would have to type it in. I
try to warn people and I get arrogant people to post.
~Dan
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> And by posting them here they are sure to be harvested again for spam.
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> -Rob.
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| Even if they're not clickable, they can be harvested. They just need to be in the format of email addresses. I wouldn't be surprised if someone wrote a bot to scrape up "name at address dot com" too. But, for now that's safe. -Tim (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Take a pill. I'm not up on spam technology but I would be very surprised if clickable had much to do with it. Harvesting addresses would hardly be profitable if a person literally had to take the time to click on each one. One could imagine (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Bots harvest e-mail address from posts, mailto: is not required. I (...) Posting a bunch of e-mail addresses wasn't necessary... generally speaking its bad form. Not sure what part of my response you found arrogant. (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| "Dan Mattia" <lego_dan44@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HF9320.16IG@lugnet.com... (...) They are clickable!!! I am using Outlook Newsreader, and it automatically converts everything that looks like a mail address or URL into "clickable". (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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