Re: Replacing @ with " at " - Mailing list pgsql-www

From greg@turnstep.com
Subject Re: Replacing @ with " at "
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Msg-id ff95179ff3c7b88cd043028b0f35c73e@biglumber.com
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In response to Re: Replacing @ with " at "  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
Responses Re: Replacing @ with " at "  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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> As for 2, if the mailto is literal text in the html, a spambot is going
> to pick it up regardless�my 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@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200312051936

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