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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Spam Proofing . . .
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:10:24 -0700

On Saturday 19 June 2004 6:44 pm, David Kowis wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > [mailto:sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jason Flatt
> > Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 4:27 PM
> > To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Spam Proofing . . .
> >
> > On Saturday 19 June 2004 7:05 am, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > > It seems we have two ways of doing it: 1) the entire e-mail
> >
> > address as one
> >
> > > long word with the @ and the . converted to something
> >
> > like_AT_ and _DOT_
> >
> > > (as Andrew as done for his e-mail addresses -- I followed
> >
> > his lead),
> >
> > Done! If I made any mistakes, or if you really like all that
> > extra e-mail,
> > let me know or feel free to change it yourself. :^)
>
> My only thought is, will this be sufficient? I know that, as a programmer,
> that's really easy to get around
> If I find something similar to _AT_ or _DOT_ then I should replace it with
> @ or . It may be perfectly fine, but like I said, it's my only thought :)

Really, nothing is fool proof. To a resourceful person who is bound to
scavenge our e-mail addresses, they will come up with a way to get them, even
if it's manually entering them. But to a majority of the bots that are just
scrounging around whatever site they come up with, I'm hoping this will help
reduce that amount of spam.

--
Jason Flatt (jason @ flattfamily . com)
Father of five (http://www.flattfamily.com/)
Linux user (http://www.sourcemage.org/)
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