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>The assumption has been that the various spiders and bots that harvest email
>addresses are extremely limited in their intelligence, and that it does not
>take much to fool them. This, too, is a topic of discussion in the groups on
>new.spamcop.net. So, for instance, as far as anyone has been able to tell,
>the obfuscation of SMTPs using HTML character entities, as mentioned on the
>Robelle site, seems to defeat address harvesters. Likewise, it seems that
>these address harvesters are only looking for SMTPs that end in .com, or
>are, at least, ignoring SMTPs with country codes. In a recent discussion of
>who had received a certain spam, those whose addresses ended in .uk seemed
>unspammed.
>

I see you got 36 spams over a weekend - I got upwards of 20 over a
similar period, and all to my .uk address.

I can see why spammers would skip addresses where the 'product or
service' they are selling is inappropriate, but it doesn't stop me
getting real estate, golf courses, vacations, and GKW. Some of them even
*say* 'good only in the US', but still send them to my manifestly non-US
address.

I suspect I'd get a lot less spam if I didn't post to
comp.sys.hp.mpe.... but I certainly got none of the specific spams sent
to the list itself.

OTOH, I get more, and different spams, to my Hotmail address, where the
nasty spammers have no idea *where* I am....
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Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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