From: Bjarni R. Einarsson (bre@netverjar.is)
Date: Sun Nov 07 1999 - 09:19:23 CST
Hi,
I was wondering if people had discussed on this list the possibility
of adding anti-spambot features to hypermail, so an online hypermail
archive wouldn't become grazing grounds' for spambots?
There are all sorts of examples of how this could be done out there,
and I'm considering implementing some of the following here on my own
copy of hypermail (I'll send in a patch when I'm done):
+ Turning "bre@mmedia.is" into "bre (at) mmedia (dot) is", or
"bre @ mmedia. is", or random permutations of the above.
+ Wpoison style fake addresses inserted into real ones, as comments.
+ Replacing the @ character with something else, e.g. !
(useful for mangling signatures w/o changing line lengths - nobody
really uses bang paths anymore, do they? :-).
Comments?
Suggestions?
I realize that this won't stop the most determined address harvestors out
there, but it slow them down a bit.
(For those worried about the features freeze: I don't expect this sort
of thing to be included in the "official" hypermail 2.0, unless the crowd
goes absolutely wild. I just thought you might be interested.)
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