Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:51:05 -0500 From: cpet <cpet@sdf.org> To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website Message-ID: <7395751a3c754c5ed35bf8e0d8ab601d@sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <20150410181255.GA2891@gsp.org> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> <20150410181255.GA2891@gsp.org>
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On 2015-04-10 13:12, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > This may be well-intentioned, but it demonstrates a nearly-complete > lack of understanding of how spammers' address-harvesters work. > > The techniques in use in the field are very sophisticated and unlikely > to > be defeated by anyone who hasn't spent at least a decade studying them > in detail. (And even then: probably not. The existence of hundreds of > millions of 'bots changed the game markedly and there is no undoing > that.) > > The ONLY reasonable course of action, at this point, is to presume that > all email addresses are either (a) in the hands of spammers or (b) will > be in their hands soon, and plan defenses accordingly. Any other > approach > is doomed to fail and should be instantly dismissed with prejudice: the > only people it will impede in the slightest are non-spammers. > > ---rsk > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I don't know the sudden thought that I won 237 Million makes me happy :P
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