X-no-Archive:yes
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.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
Share and Enjoy - [log in to unmask]

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 2:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: Spam on HP3000-l

<snip>
But all joking aside, I doubt the listserv address has been harvested from
comp.sys.hp.mpe. If it had, I'm sure that those of us who read and post via
the newsgroup, rather than the List, would have had our own copies also.
Hasn't happened for me....

--
Roy Brown

Posting to (and so from) comp.sys.hp.mpe

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *