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 like that, his self-deprecation about his r.e. prowess notwithstanding. :-) If nothing else, all an enterprising spammer would have to do is steal Mailman's email address matcher and replace "@" with " at ". Oh, wait, it's open source. They wouldn't even have to steal thecode.
I've always wanted to re-architect the archives so that they would / always/ vend the messages from an active process. I wouldn't have any static files, except a cache for efficiency, and I would generate the HTML on demand. My guess is that 99% of all archived messages are never read by a human. The problem of course is spiders but I guess they'll just warm up your cache. ;/
This would allow: * easy redeployment of new obfuscation techniques * on demand take downs or sanitization * easy site regeneration for style changes. -Barry
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