Re: [Boost-users] Spamming through boost???

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-07 07:30:59

Ovanes Markarian wrote:

> I googled for my name and found on the first page an entry from the boost archive at Gmane:
> 
>> From: Ovanes Markarian <om_boost <at> xxx.xxx> Subject: [mpl::map] pregeneration of ... Is there
>> smth, that I miss? With Kind Regards, Ovanes Markarian.
> 
> To parse the string: <om_boost <at> xxx.xxx> is really silly and can be easily done with your
> regex lib.

Gmane has this to say on the topic, quoted from http://gmane.org/faq.php:

<quote>
# I figured out how to crack the address obfuscation in the web interface! 
You just replace "<at>" with "@"! You guys are obviously not 3l33+!

Er, yes. However, current accepted wisdom in the anti-spam community is 
that spam harvesting bots do not do even trivial unobfuscation, so nothing 
more than this trivial scheme is necessary. If that changes, the 
obfuscation scheme will change, too.
</quote>

Seems like this is no longer true. And Gmane now provides an address 
encryption scheme, see http://gmane.org/tmda.php. List administrators can 
request this to be activated for the whole list.

HTH, Markus