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Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- From: Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:32:11 -0700
- Subject: Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- Reply-to: bkorb at veritas dot com
> > I think it irresponsible in this day in age to provide fodder for the
> > spammers and I encourage you to remove them ASAP. I'm not talking
> > about changing "foo at bar dot com" into "foo at bar dot com" which is
> > trivial to decode.
>
> Whereas I think the existing munging started going too far when it started
> munging message bodies as well as headers, and thereby started affecting
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.
I believe that no email addresses are harvested from my pages any more.