At 14:26 23/04/01 -0400, Nick Simicich wrote:
>These are spam e-mails, of course, no one else needs to obfuscate their web
>site addresses that way.
hmmm' I understand that these guys try to subvert content filtering engines,
but the problem is that of content filtering engines, not of the URL!
a serious program should check the address/name, test whether it is an address,
and if not, do a DNS lookup. When testing the address, the BSD inet_aton should
be used. If filtering is done on hostnames, then a DNS lookup gives you the
hostname.
Any software that fails to handle these obvious considerations has been written
by people who should first learn before coding...
>Get yourself a free or, with more capabilities, a pay account at
>http://spamcop.net.
??? that's a commercial offer, my friend. With all the respect I have for
people
I don't know, these guys have yet to convince me that they are really needed.
Spam is a well-known problem, and the open source and open community
solutions are far more advanced than any commercial offer, and with all
that, the
problem is still unsolved, so I doubt these guys can help...
> Copy/paste the entire spam with all header lines into
>the window there and the software will do complete analysis of any
>non-javascript encoded spam target addresses and even format the complaints
>for you.
if it's just filtering by server address/name, it's just obvious, and any
non brain damaged
product can do it. if it's to be done interactively, then a script is a
trivial matter to write!
> Furthermore, if the company claims it has resolved the matter
>they will not continue to complain, thereby making it a good thig for them
>to resolve their spam promptly.
I doubt anyone anywhere can solve the spam problem.... unfortunate, but
that's reality.
cheers,
mouss
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