I'm sure they have, but do they really bother programming their
harvester software for that type of intelligence? I doubt it.
I'm sure we can come up with some algorithm that people can reverse but
that the bots can't decipher or even recognize as emails. . . Just
turning every "a" to a "z" and every "z" to an "a" should confuse them
enough.
Erik Klein
www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
The Vintage Computer Forum
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From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Vintage Computer Festival
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:54 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Tek 1230
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Erik Klein wrote:
> I'm not sure if anyone wants this fixed, but couldn't we perform some
> form of reversible modification to the email address? Perhaps turning
> cctalk_at_classiccmp.org into cctalk2003ATclassiccmpDOTorg would fool the
> harvesters and allow people to reply to an individual.
You don't think the spammers have thought of that already?
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