Re: E-mail harvesting on PG lists? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: E-mail harvesting on PG lists?
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Msg-id 0f0a6c03785c01d4e498cd7b7ea7f1c4@biglumber.com
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In response to Re: E-mail harvesting on PG lists?  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.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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