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Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl at vitelus dot com>
- Cc: Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:34:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- References: <3EA99B4B.64D71890@veritas.com> <20030425234204.GH5514@vitelus.com>
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:42:04PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:32:11PM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> >
> > I used to agree. If you do a wget on this page:
> >
> > http://autogen.sourceforge.net/announce.html
> >
> > At the very bottom, you'll see indecipherable javascript gobbeldygook.
> > If you do a "view page source" on it, you'll see some HTML mailto
> > markup that email harversters never look at and if they do they
> > cannot decipher. Finally, if you x-copy and x-paste, you'll get
> > English text. Something along those lines ought to please everyone.
>
> Except lynx users, the blind, people who don't use X, and people who
> turn off javascript.
Which means we can't use such techniques.