On 10/30/2000 at 8:01 AM, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
MDP> It's a matter of where it appears. The archives for this list do not
MDP> show contributor's addresses but addresses in the body of a message
MDP> would appear.
It is worth noting that the way in which you're munging the address is
poor for a couple of reasons. First, most harvesting programs *are*
smart enough to eliminate things like ".nospam." out of an address.
Second, there actually is a nospam.com. This means you're actually
bouncing your spam for some other poor bastard's system to deal
with...or worse, giving them nice demographic data.
The best way (per the email RFCs) to munge your address is to change
your TLD (com, net, org, etc.) to "invalid". My address, for example,
would become [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compliant mailing programs would
have code written in to reject such an address, and even failing that,
the domain won't resolve at all so the spammer gets an immediate
bounce message. While it's true they can brute-force it by changing
the "invalid" part to "com", "org", "net" and trying them all, there's
no evidence that they do so. At least you're not just handing your
spam to someone else.
So what's the safest way to munge your address within the message, but
still let other people know who you are? Easy; you don't give an
address, but rather instructions as to how to repair the one in the
header..."Replace 'invalid' with 'com'" in the above address.
Alternately, you can do what I do in my usenet postings, and put
something like "geo *AT* snarksoft *DOT* com".
Geo
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George Mealer
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"... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough hammer." -- Sun System & Network Admin manual
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