[ale] (no subject) SPAM talk...

[Dow Hurst]

Just go to sleep tonight thinking of all the ways a spammer can use to pull 
messages and parse them with a methodology to grab headers, pull out the IPs, 
match them with the email, and test with spam mail for validity.  I figure 
spam is here to stay until someone really bright figures out controls.  I 
remember reading a Greg Bear novel called Eon and the sequels (highly 
recommended) that had copies of your personality able to act for you and be 
used by you to run interference for stuff like spam, salespeople, and general 
contact decisions.  Cool idea but a long long way off! ;-)
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:
> William Wylde wrote:
>  > As you noted, ALE is the only list I'm on which publishes a
> 
>> publicly-accessable and therefor harvestable collection of e-mail 
>> addresses (via it's archives).
> 
> 
> I'm subscribed to a number of lists, of those, the following do not 
> obscure poster's addresses at all:
> 
> All SuSE lists
> the freeswan list
> am-info list
> debian lists
> 
> 
> Many obscure them poorly, as in: user ( at ) domain.com
> OR: user domain com
> 
> You think spammers haven't already figured this one out?
> 

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