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[Robin <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>]

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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:18, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> This whole discussion sounds like security by obscurity.  The fact is,
Thing is, for something like email, obscurity is about the only way to do it 
(excluding filters). It's not like it's a matter of system security. If you 
can reduce the amount of spam be munging the address in some of the places, 
then that gives you a benefit.

> 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
Not strictly true, the more places it is, the more spam it'll pick up. I have 
my email address all over the net (google gives me 112 results), and I don't 
get much spam. A really old address I used isn't on google, but was used on 
usenet without munging a few times, and gets heaps more.

> our tar gzipped files are already toast -- scanned by a spammer.  They
> wouldn't need to untar, just unbzip2.
I doubt they'd do that, because there is awful large quantities of tar.gz or 
tar.bz2 data, and more often than not, they'd decompress something to find it 
full of mostly useless (for harvesting) data.

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