On 7/11/06, Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such "obfuscation" is virtually useless. It is a pretty trivial > exercise to write a Perl program to collect e-mail addresses from > such schemes (I could do it in a matter of less than an hour to cover > all of the common variations). Same goes for all sorts of other > schemes that try to hide the e-mail address. > > Since there is little that can be done to prevent a determined person > from harvesting addresses and nothing that can be done to prevent > spammers from sending, the best tactic that can be used today is a > good bayesian spam filter. But that is only part of the solution, it > also requires a conscientious administrator who is willing to take > the time to train it on both ham and spam.
FWIW, the mini-turing-test ideas seem fairly reasonable, if you build in enough variations. E.g.,: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove fish) -- - Patrick Bogen ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
