I double ROT-13 encode my email address on my web pages -- any spammer 
who sends mail to me having crawled my site and decoded my email 
address is a DMCA violator themselves.

C

On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 01:27  PM, Bort, Paul wrote:

> If we're in the US, would blocking spam despite a ROT-13'd e-mail 
> address be
> a violation of the DMCA? (Circumvention of a protection device)
>
> (Sorry, just had to...)
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:47 PM
>> To: Matt Kettler
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [Razor-users] Mutating spam
>>
>>
>>
>> Matt Kettler said:
>>
>>> As far as I've seen, a lot of spam mutates in a trivial
>> manner to avoid
>>> razor1. This usually consists of some weird jumble of
>> characters on the
>>> last line, like this one:
>>>
>>> 2116msVz4-700AzuY5418EMwg7-752Rzau6586BboI8-901dfiF9532UHAl55
>>
>> Interestingly, some of these seem (apparently) to be
>> encrypted versions of
>> the recipient email address.  To see this, ROT13 yr address
>> and grep your
>> spam archive.  There'll be at least 1 hit.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure how this helps the spammers though. ;)
>>
>> --j.
>>
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