Paul A. Houle wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:52:22 -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes they do have spiders. And I'd bet that most of those spiders know
how to turn "user at example.com" and many of the other common
obfuscations into "user@xxxxxxxxxxx".
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This is nuts.
Yes.
The best defense against spam is a defense in depth. It makes sense to filter spam at the mail server and the mail client, but it also makes sense to prevent one's address from being exposed to spammers.<snip>
Yes, "user at example.com" is lame, but you can do a lot better by requiring:
<yada-yada-yada>
Apparently you guys haven't bothered to look at what Gmane actually does to inhibit the spiders. It's not just "user at example.com." They do that on the website for groups that fail to do the following: they actually *encrypt* your e-mail address and force the sender to verify themselves. Read more.
http://gmane.org/tmda.php
William
