On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > >From http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml > > " Major Findings > > Our analysis indicated that e-mail addresses posted on Web sites or in > newsgroups attract the most spam. > Web Sites - CDT received the most e-mails when an address was placed visibly > on a public Web site. Spammers use software harvesting programs such as > robots or spiders to record e-mail addresses listed on Web sites, including > both personal Web pages and institutional (corporate or non-profit) Web > pages. > CDT tested two methods of obstructing address harvesting: > > Replacing characters in an e-mail address with human-readable equivalents, > e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" was written "example at domain dot com;" and > Replacing characters in an e-mail address with HTML equivalents. > E-mail addresses posted to Web sites using these conventions did not receive > any spam. "
Interesting. > ObCygwin: This relates to and confirms some of the information on the > cygwin website so it's not too off-topic! <g> > (http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR) > > ObCygwin: Oh, alright then. > > Index: acronyms/index.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/cygwin/htdocs/acronyms/index.html,v > retrieving revision 1.83 > diff -u -p -r1.83 index.html > --- acronyms/index.html 2 Sep 2004 16:34:42 -0000 1.83 > +++ acronyms/index.html 23 Sep 2004 11:21:46 -0000 > [snip] > _Now_ is it on-topic? Applied with some minor rephrasing. Thanks. Generally speaking, no measure is completely spam-proof, except complete erasure of e-mail addresses (which will conflict with any other legitimate use of "@" on the list). Spamming is more or less an industry now, and one can imagine an industrious spammer (or spam harvester -- not the same thing) writing a filter that looks for words like "mail archive" on web pages and applies more elaborate spam harvesting techniques for those pages that have them. Still, deterring 99% of spam harvesters is better than not deterring any at all. Anything that helps even a little bit should be done. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/