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Re: Has MOCPages been harvested for spam?
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Date:
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Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:55:14 GMT
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On 11/17/05, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:28:38PM +0000, Rob Antonishen wrote:
> > But if you subscribe via email, the from is unmangled. So a smammer
> > would just have to subscribe for a while and collect all the "from"
> > addressed (the reply-to is set to the mailing list, however) and bingo
> > - has a nice big list of valid addresses.
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> A spammer that goes to that muvh trouble to get our addresses cannot be
> blocked by automatic tools. All spamblocks are designed to protect
> against generic spam bots, not humans or custom written bots.
>
> --
> Dan Boger
> dan@peeron.com
Dan-
Not complaining, just observing :)
I'm just surprised that if the effort was made to munge the web
display of email addresses, no such effort was made in the email
portion...
You just can't win against spammers.
For example, When I hit reply in gmail (where I read this from), by
default it uses a line like:
"On Mon, Jan 14, 2005, John Smith (gsmith@nowhere.com) Wrote:"
So I go an nicely delete the email (or at least try to remember).
Otherwise it shows up on the lugnet page anyway, like this reply to
me:
http://news.lugnet.com/org/ca/rtltoronto/?n=15210
Which means an automatic harvester will get it anyway, if someone
replys via email and their client acts like mine...
-Rob A>
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