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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-07 10:45:19

Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> 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>

It's almost impossible to keep an e-mail address non-spammable nowadays 
(short of not using it at all); a number of viruses/trojans harvest e-mail 
addresses from infected computers.