On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 10:10 -0400, Nathan House wrote:
> >My thinking was, if the spam was coming from the list, I should be getting
> it also
> 
> I've never used this email for anything other then the PICList, and I get
> spam.
> 
> If the e-mail addresses must be left in the messages, why not obfuscate
> them? E.G. nathanN0piclistATgmailSPAMdotcom? It would take only a few
> seconds to take the unnecessary characters out.. Or maybe that wouldn't be
> sneaky enough trick spam bots?

First off, any obfuscation is quite annoying.

Second, most bots are programmed to "see through" any sort of common
obfuscation.

Third, unless some sort of "random" obfuscation was done anybody on this
list could reprogram a bot to deal with it in about 2 seconds.

Fourth, assuming some sort of random obfuscation, and considering how
"weird" some people's email addresses are, "real" people would have alot
of trouble figuring out what was the obfuscation and what wasn't. Case
in point, my email address starts with mailinglist4, is the 4 part of
the address or part of the obfuscation? Most would guess the latter,
while the former is correct.

Fifth, it's so easy to get an address (be it gmail or whatever) with
good spam filtering, I don't see the point in complicating matters.

TTYL

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