[ale] Webcrawlers can harvest ALE Archive E-mail Addresses

[Geoffrey]

Matthew Brown wrote:
> Nicely made point.

How so?  There's nothing to back it up.  Further, there are scripts out 
there that are specifically designed to harvest email addresses with 
code that addresses the obfuscation.

> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Matthew Brown
> CorData, Inc. -- Linux solutions for business
> o: 770-795-0089
> 
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 
>> understanding is that email addresses are so easy to harvest right
>> now, that few harvesters bother trying to unobfuscate the email
>> addresses.  I suspect that even something as stupid as replacing all
>> '@'  symbols with ' AT ' in the archives would significantly reduce my
>> spam.  Doing funky stuff with hex codes might work even better.
>> Spammers know that using strange spellings and characters can fool
>> many filters.  Similarly, I bet the same tricks would fool many
>> spammers.
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Until later, Geoffrey