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From:
Neil Walsh
To:
IDM
Date:
Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:37:28 +0100
Subject:
Re: [idm] [OT] List Archive Address Munging
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<20030203143728.A9116@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
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<BA63EE39.1F928%muffin@signmytits.com>
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:00:25AM +0000, Muffin wrote:
quoted 17 lines Hi All,> Hi All, > > This is the only place that I use this email address, and I've been getting > an increasing amount of SPAM to my address. A quick search shows that > address's are listed as whole on the archives for the list, any chance that > these could be munged so that something like > > muffin@signmytits.com becomes > > Muffin [at] signmytits [dot] com > > Thus stopping those horrible people who crawls mailing list archives for > email address's getting our details automagically? > > Sorry if this is an old topic, but I'm really depressed by the amount of > spam I get already, and don't need more. And I don't want to get into the > "Just press delete" argument.
Actually where are the archives you're talking about? The only ones I can find are gzipped Berekley style mailboxes, which I'm guessing is an extremly inefficent way of harvesting e-mail addresses. Neil -- Are we going to the same place? If so can I come? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org