23 Oct
2001
23 Oct
'01
7:35 a.m.
At 12:22 PM 10/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
Is there an assumption that spam address harvesters
would be incapable of
replacing all occurences of 'DOT' with '.' and 'AT' with
'@' ?
If I were writing an e-mail harvester, I'm sure
I'd have quite an extensive subroutine that looked
for known patterns of spam-avoidance, and how to
undo them. I can't fathom why otherwise smart people
assume that other smart but nasty people won't think
of the same things they did, and be able to undo them.
- John