OT: _spam_ (Fred N. van Kempen)

Two things. [0] I'm still working on that ol' web site thing for ClassicCmp. One thing I'm looking at now is integrating the old archives with the new archives, which I've found *is* possible. More importantly, I now know how to spam-protect _every_ address in an archived message -- not just the poster's address. DUH, it's called *sed*! sed -Ee ' s/([^[:space:]]+)@([^[:space:]]+.[^[:space:]]+)/\1 [at] \2/g ' < bad_file > good_file That replaces the '@' in email addresses with ' [at] '. Is that sufficient to fool a harvester, or should a more sophisticated replacement be made? What replacement would that be? [1] I've written a procmail script that makes unknown senders go through a confirmation process similar to subscribing to a mailing list. I established backdoor, unfiltered addresses that I will hand out to companies, one for each business that wants one. That way, if spam starts coming to a particular address, I'll know exactly who is responsible and take appropriate steps. -- Jeffrey Sharp