Re: E-mail harvesting on PG lists?

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: E-mail harvesting on PG lists?
Date: 2006-01-10 20:42:31
Message-ID: 0f0a6c03785c01d4e498cd7b7ea7f1c4@biglumber.com
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>> If you think that spammers are unable to do s/ (at) /@/ you're living in
>> a dream world.

> Agreed. I'd honesly rather we drop that nonsense so I can at least cut
> and paste email addresses when needed.

I'd rather not. While obfuscation is not a surefire solution, it does help.
Quite a bit, as spammers generally go for the low hanging fruit. I've done
tests on this, and the number of spams received is far higher for
unobfuscated email addresses.

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