From: "Jo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bret Miller wrote:
Seems spammers have taken up to doing what many of us have in posting
e-mail addresses, putting [dot] instead of the . in the URL and telling
people to replace it like this:

Welcome!

[E]rectile
[D]ysfunction?

We can help! Our site: ochhorfando[dot]com ;) Don't forget to replace
"[dot]" to "."

Spam sample here: http://webmail.wcg.org/~support/15292-P.txt

Maybe time to start working on the URI parser to catch baddomain.com and
baddomain[dot]com and probably other variations (dot), -dot-, {dot}, and
whatever else you might think they'd use to delimit the dot.

Bret
punt, puntje, bolleke, bolletje, point, Punkt, punto, punkto. With 6000 languages worldwide that's a lot of possible variations...

And with the human ability to fill in the blanks....

(The "MUNGED" and "DOT" defenses are silly. They, indeed, are too easy
to automatically work around. For grins, on an Amiga in the late 90s I
used AREXX to build a tiny script for doing this then discarded it as
something I didn't need.)

{^_-}

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