Re: email mangling (Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls cmp.c extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h pri

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
Date
24 Mar 2006 21:20:21
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Re: email mangling (Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls cmp.c extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h pri
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Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> writes:
> How about replacing the dot with another character? Like,
> someone@here.com would become someone@here*com. The harvesters
> would likely catch up to it as well but it would take them some
> time. Or for a little more confusion add a fake suffix or prefix
> seperated by a dot, like: someone@here*com.com or
> someone@xxx.here*com.

Look, mangling email addresses to protect against spammers is about as
effective and reliable as the good old "I'll pull out early, I
promise" contraceptive method. Can everybody please grow up, accept
the hard facts of life, and install a spam filter?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smrgrav - des@des.no


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