Re: Replacing @ with " at "

From: greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
To: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Replacing @ with " at "
Date: 2003-12-06 00:38:52
Message-ID: ff95179ff3c7b88cd043028b0f35c73e@biglumber.com
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> As for 2, if the mailto is literal text in the html, a spambot is going
> to pick it up regardlessmy guess is it's even more likely to pick up a
> mailto: link than just a address elsewhere on the page. I know there
> are ways of obfuscating the email address using Javascript

Indeed:

http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/avoidance.html

Almost any change has an amazing rate of return: while a spambot can be
simply changed to pick up things like greg "at" turnstep.com, there
is so much low-hanging fruit around that few if any bother. Glad to
see this is finally being changed. But we need to remove the mailto
link and make it a simple text.

I will propose one final thing: changing press at postgresql.org to
something else, as that email is likely to get lots of spam for
many years to come at this point. :(

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200312051936

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