From: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@mru.ath.cx>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bkbits - "@" question
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:43:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xacudu342.fsf@mru.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0410231218470.21920@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:
>>> * Larry McVoy asked:
>>> The web pages on bkbits.net contain email addresses. This is
>>> probably about a 4 year too late question but would it help reduce
>>> spam if we did something like s/@/ (at) / for all those addresses?
>>>
>>> * Christoph Hellwig answered:
>>> No.
>>
>>Why not, please?
>
> Counter-example... when I stopped posting to NNTP, the amount of spam also
> decreased. Probably because the bots only skim a fixed timeperiod. In a long
> term, I think it's a good choice to replace it. Maybe some PHP magic that
> either puts <at>, [at] or (at) randomly there for each page request.
What's to stop the bots from matching each of those patterns? I have
been using my address openly on mailing lists and USENET for years,
and the spam level has stabilized on a manageable level. It's only
during the outbreak of new viruses that the levels get annoyingly
high, but those are easily filterable.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@mru.ath.cx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-23 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2SmNe-6MO-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2SqR0-10Q-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-10-23 10:14 ` Jean Delvare
2004-10-23 10:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-23 10:43 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-10-23 10:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-23 10:30 ` Toni Spets
2004-10-23 10:59 ` Jean Delvare
2004-10-23 11:10 ` DaMouse
2004-10-24 15:40 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-10-23 4:26 Larry McVoy
2004-10-23 9:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-23 11:12 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-10-23 11:36 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 11:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-23 15:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-25 6:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-28 17:48 ` Mark Frazer
2004-10-28 18:13 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-28 18:47 ` Mark Frazer
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