From: "Bookworm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.... that analyzes and scores email addresses:
we have big companies that give their employees more or less random strings as email
addresses
(but length will not be extremely long)
Otherwise we have email addresses that somehow are built from a person's name,
(e.g first.last, f.last, last17f or similar), and we have addresses that are a person's
nick, or
otherwise relate to its hobby or profession. In rare cases someone would make
an email
address from the name of some celebrity.
Now something that seems to be typical for spam are display names that look like a
person's
name along with email addresses that look like a different person's name, and often
seems
to belong to a different language.
The hypothhetical plugin would have to find out whether the mail addy looks like a
name,
whether the display name looks like a name as well, and only in that case determine
whether
the names have anything in common
Wolfgang Hamann
Or simply a plugin that scans for more than three numeric characters in the first
portion of the email address. On one of the boards I host and maintain, I frequently
see things like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yes, plural).
I'd believe that of Mauritius. All you need to do is scan that one for
the hotmail spelling error.
I get them in spams as well. The reason I said more than three is that I know that with
AOL and similar, you get stuff like [EMAIL PROTECTED] - because of all the bobs. Of
course, you could simply tell it to ignore @aol/hotmail/excite - the major boards that
do this.
If it says aol and it's not from an aol server it's blacklisted if you
have done your homework, visited SARE, and so forth.
{^_^}
