Re: SPAM!!

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:28:36AM +0100, Andreas Kohn wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 00:56, Thomas Repantis wrote:
> > Can't this archiving take place in a more intelligent manner?  For example 
> > using "user host.org", instead of "user at host.org", "user[at]host.org" 
> > or (Goddess forbid!) [email protected].
> 
> What would that change? It would just be another form of saying
> "[email protected]" without saying "[email protected]". 

I cannot think of an easy way for a robot to detect "user host.org" or 
"user host org", without harvesting many irrelevant things.  On the other 
hand "[email protected]" is blatantly obvious, even  for a robot.  

> Personally I think using some sort of spam filters should work quite
> well. 

I use filtering myself, but this is fighting the problem at its very end.

Thomas
-- 
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, 
see a fine picture, and -if possible- speak a few reasonable words."   
		-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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