Two things.
[0] I'm still working on that ol' web site thing for ClassicCmp. One thing
I'm looking at now is integrating the old archives with the new
archives, which I've found *is* possible. More importantly, I now know
how to spam-protect _every_ address in an archived message -- not just
the poster's address. DUH, it's called *sed*!
sed -Ee '
s/([^[:space:]]+)_at_([^[:space:]]+.[^[:space:]]+)/\1 [at] \2/g
' < bad_file > good_file
That replaces the '_at_' in email addresses with ' [at] '. Is that
sufficient to fool a harvester, or should a more sophisticated
replacement be made? What replacement would that be?
[1] I've written a procmail script that makes unknown senders go through a
confirmation process similar to subscribing to a mailing list. I
established backdoor, unfiltered addresses that I will hand out to
companies, one for each business that wants one. That way, if spam
starts coming to a particular address, I'll know exactly who is
responsible and take appropriate steps.
--
Jeffrey Sharp
Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 09:33:00 GMT