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- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] lua-l archive at lua-users.org
- From: Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:09:59 +0200 (MEST)
> Steve Dekorte wrote:
> >
> > Yes, please do that. Something as simple as:
> >
> > address = gsub(gsub(address, "@", " at "), "%.", " dot ")
> >
> > would be sufficient.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Not really. The spammer's bots can easily substitute those back
> again to the real email address. Spammers can use regexps as well
> as we can.
>
> Björn De Meyer
I agree. I always wondered of the usefulness of such obfuscation. It was
probably effective the first times, but since almost everybody use the same
tricks ("[email protected]_SPAM.net", "PhiLho at GMX dot net" or such), I bet
some spammers harvest and normalize these addresses as well. Or not?
Regards.
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