Re: Spam

From: Bruce Jones (bjones@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 11:08:46 PST


>From shakuhachi-request@communication.ucsd.edu Sun Jan 4 23:49:36 2004
>
>I have heard that one place spammers get their addresses is by
>running programs that "harvest" the addresses from random web pages.

Too true.

>Could that be changed? Some mailing list software disguises addresses
>in the archives by, say, replacing the "@" with " AT ". Others only
>allow you to read the archives by entering an easily discovered
>(except by harvesters) password.

I could easily make the archives password protected and cut down on
the possibility of address harvesting.

Any objections?

bj

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