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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

This whole discussion sounds like security by obscurity.  The fact is,
they're already in a database somewhere and somehow it will get let
loose on the spammer community.  Proper client-side spam filtering is
the only method I know of that actually works.  Believe me, I've tried
keeping email addresses secret, but the first person to put it in a
website even with obfuscation and the game's over.  I'm willing to bet
our tar gzipped files are already toast -- scanned by a spammer.  They
wouldn't need to untar, just unbzip2.

Seth

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:34:07PM -0500, David Kowis wrote:
> We could write a php page that will provide links to all of the HISTORY
> files within a certain directory recursively. And that php page will
> remove/obfuscate any emails. Also, that would remove the actual grimiore
> from the htdocs folder providing additional security from bots. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> > [mailto:sm-discuss-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jason Flatt
> > Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:23 PM
> > To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Spam Proofing . . .
> > 
> > On Sunday 20 June 2004 1:51 pm, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:13:02AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > > > This is only a partial solution, because we also publish 
> > uncompressed
> > > > HISTORY files on codex, and they have every developer's email of
> > > > course... So may I suggest changing rules for writing 
> > HISTORY files too?
> > >
> > > I don't think we should change all HISTORY files, instead 
> > we could have
> > > some script that obfuscates the mail adresses in the published
> > > uncompressed files.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I'm going to take a nap, because I can't think at 
> > all.  :^)
> > 
> > -- 
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