If you (we) can alter them to something spammers can't directly use then
why can't an intelligent spammer alter them back? I hate the stuff as
much as anyone but if we alter our addresses so that the a-h's can't use
them then how can legit people do so (if they don't know the
conversion)?
Al McGregor B9006487
Jarrid Gross wrote:
>
> Ok,
>
> Now Ive had it.
> Spam has just about taken over my computer.
> Every day I get 40 to 60 spam emails.
> That and 10 to 20 legitimate emails.
>
> The signal to noise ratio is now deafining.
>
> Since I dont subscribe to other list servers, or USENET,
> and dont frequent porn sites, the spammers are mining my email
> and most likely yours too from the alpine archives.
>
> T.J., I realize that there is not a lot you can do, but I
> volunteer that we could retro-actively alter the email addresses
> within the archives and make them un-minable.
>
> I could write some code to do a generic substitution of text
> containing the (at) symbol.
>
> take an archive file full of email addresses like joe_blow(at)url.net
> and turn them into joe_blow(at)url.net and the like.
>
> Anyone have an opinion of the efficacy of this?
>
> Also, while I remmember thumbs up to T.J.
>
> NOLIST
>
> Jarrid Gross
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