[OT] RE: SPAM and archives (Was: Re: [plug] PHP question..)

[Dirk]

It would be nicer to just fire up DOS attacks agains anyone found spamming
ie not the relayer but the actual porn/viagra/penis enlargment webpage the
government should almost do this spam is getting so annoyoing I dont want a
USA credit card or a pre approved home loan arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Onno Benschop [mailto:onno at itmaze.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:10 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: Re: SPAM and archives (Was: Re: [plug] PHP question..)
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 12:55, James Devenish wrote:
> > In message <20030704042027.GB18801 at spark.plug.linux.org.au>
> > on Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:20:28PM +0800, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > > At the moment it's basic as all it does is s/@/_at_/
> WHen I move the
> >
> > If the address is to be displayed in a human-readable form,
> could you do
> > something more obscure, like
> 'goober from cantech'? (surely
> > harvesters will soon realise what _at_ stands for).
> >
> > > goober at cantech.net.au =>
> > >
> #103;#111;#111;#98;#101;#114;#64;#99;#97;#110;#116;#101;#99;#1
> 04;#46;#110;#101;#116;#46;#97;#117;
> > >
> > > Which I understand email harvesters don't like.
> >
> > (1) I would have thought such as idea would have been based on HTML
> > character codes or URL encoding. The above example seems to
> be a blend
> > on the two and is technically neither. Most humans would
> get no value
> > from the above.
>
> In the browser the ASCII characters are displayed as human readable.
>
> If they browse the net and copy and paste the above, it will be parsed
> and shown correctly on most mail clients - at least, that's what is
> supposed to happen - and on my Debian box with Galeon and Evolution it
> does.
>
> > (2) If you actually meant to use one of the above-mentioned
> encoding,
> > surely that will be utterly ineffective when spammers start using a
> > stock standard HTML parsers to build their harvesters --
> the encoding
> > won't make a difference.
>
> This may well be true, however I'm sure that Tony is basing this
> encoding scheme on the research that was recently completed about this
> phenomenon. You can read it here:
>
>         <http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml>
>
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