23 Jun
2003
23 Jun
'03
9:47 a.m.
Hi,
I came across your 8008/8080 web page while searching for ...
I've noticed a fair number of these types of posts lately. Basically
it comes down to the address munging that's being done to prevent
spammers from harvesting is also preventing legitimate browsers from
identifying the authors of messages individually.
I'm not sure if anyone wants this fixed, but couldn't we perform some
form of reversible modification to the email address? Perhaps turning
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org into cctalk2003ATclassiccmpDOTorg would fool the
harvesters and allow people to reply to an individual.
Just a thought,
Erik Klein
www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
The Vintage Computer Forum
23 Jun
23 Jun
11:03 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Erik Klein wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone wants this fixed, but
couldn't we perform some
form of reversible modification to the email address? Perhaps turning
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org into cctalk2003ATclassiccmpDOTorg would fool the
harvesters and allow people to reply to an individual.
You don't think the spammers have thought of that already?
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2:55 p.m.
I'm sure they have, but do they really bother programming their
harvester software for that type of intelligence? I doubt it.
I'm sure we can come up with some algorithm that people can reverse but
that the bots can't decipher or even recognize as emails. . . Just
turning every "a" to a "z" and every "z" to an "a"
should confuse them
enough.
Erik Klein
www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
The Vintage Computer Forum
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:54 PM
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Erik Klein wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone wants this fixed, but
couldn't we perform some
form of reversible modification to the email address? Perhaps turning
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org into cctalk2003ATclassiccmpDOTorg would fool the
harvesters and allow people to reply to an individual.
You don't think the spammers have thought of that already?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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http://www.vintage.org
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24 Jun
24 Jun
12:49 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Erik S. Klein wrote:
I'm sure they have, but do they really bother
programming their
harvester software for that type of intelligence? I doubt it.
Yes, they do.
I'm sure we can come up with some algorithm that
people can reverse but
that the bots can't decipher or even recognize as emails. . . Just
turning every "a" to a "z" and every "z" to an
"a" should confuse them
enough.
Like I've always said, it's much easier to just find and kill all the
spammers.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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