Toby writes: | Jack Campin wrote: | > A better solution would be to edit out the email addresses and replace | > them by names or handles so the archive ends up looking like a typical | > web discussion board (e.g. Mudcat). I don't mind who sees the content | > of what I've written so long as it doesn't lead to even more spam than | > I'm getting now. | | I could write a script to do that.. I'll just replace anything after @, | but before the . with a bunch of x's.
Or maybe just rewrite the @ as " AT " or ":" as others do. This seems to be something that humans can handle but is typically beyond the capacity of software that is grovelling through zillions of web pages and can't afford to use much intelligence. I've also noticed that my MIT email addresses are in lots of usenet archives, but this doesn't seem to lead to much spam. I suspect that spammers have learned that archives tend to be full of outdated addresses, so they try to avoid them. (So maybe the thing to do is to change all the dates to 10 years earlier. ;-) Actually, I get a lot more Microsoft email viruses than spam. I've tried to tell them that it doesn't do any good to send viruses to someone who reads his email on a FreeBSD or linux machine, but they don't listen to me. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
