On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:57:06AM +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
There's recently published research which suggests that simple
obfuscation can be effective. Concealment, presumably, is more effective.
At http://www.ceas.cc/ you can download Spamology: A Study of Spam
Origins
On Aug 25, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
2) is more interesting. What kinds of uses are we talking about?
You
see a message in an archive from three years ago and you want to
contact the OP about it? Why not just follow up and contact the
mailing list?
For all the reasons
On Aug 25, 2009, at 7:42 AM, s...@pobox.com wrote:
The other thing about Mailman's obfuscation is that I sorta think
that by
now the spammers have figured it out. I mean, skip at pobox.com?
Come
on. Even Barry stands a good chance of writing a regular expression
that
can locate
Something else that occurs to me.
If we accept that obfuscation is worthless and stop doing it, then
there's no reason we shouldn't make the raw mbox files available for
anyone to download. Mailman used to do this, but we removed the
feature due to user outcry. Now you can download the
That's the logical progression of that argument, and is the good reason why
obfuscation or even removal of parts is not only a good idea, its a necessity.
Exposing raw email addresses in their normal form is real low-hanging fruit.
Regardless of what I think, my clients will cry bloody murder if
Bob Puff wrote:
That's the logical progression of that argument, and is the good reason
why obfuscation or even removal of parts is not only a good idea, its a
necessity. Exposing raw email addresses in their normal form is real
low-hanging fruit.
Regardless of what I think, my clients will
the archives, but somehow Google found it, indexed it, and the guy
threatened
me with bloody murder if I didn't take it down.
Yes. It is critical to keep user perception in mind. Specifically, if you
don't keep email addresses off the global search engines, there will be a
deluge of vocal
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:03 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
What I'm thinking is that there should be a send me this message
link in the archive, which gets you a copy as it was originally sent
to the list. That let's you jump into a conversation as if you'd
been there originally.
Another use
