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

From: Andreas Huber (ahd6974-spamgroupstrap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-22 04:21:00

Peter Dimov wrote:
> 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. =

Right, but ensuring that only those people that actually did contact you 
by private email have your real address on their computers helps quite a 
bit, in my experience.

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