Forum Archive Index - April 2002

["tennyson@caverock.net.nz" <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>]

Hi Jefley,
 
>
>
> i've just received a deeply disgusting email from "famous".  i hit
> the delete button so fast that i missed the rest of the address ... 
> needless to say, i didn't open the attachment.
> 
> this is the only web site that publishes my address -- i hope it's
> not going round. ouch! jefley
> 
> 
>

Well I didn't get that spam Jefley.   And my name is floating around 
sharechat probably more than yours.   Still, having a web crawling 
robot crawl through the sharechat message board archive to grab our 
addresses for spamming is a potential worry.

I was wondering if Will might consider munging the addresses on the 
archive.  I'm thinking of something simple.  For instance instead of 
writing my address as:

tennyson@caverock.net.nz

instead write:

tennyson.A_T.caverock.net.nz

In other words, *we* all know what it means, but it doesn't register 
as an e-mail address with a spam crawling bot.  Is that a workable 
idea Will?

SNOOPY



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