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Re: preventing spam

From: Jon Scott Stevens <jon_at_latchkey.com>
Date: 2002-01-16 20:23:57 CET

If you post to public mailing lists or sign up to public websites, expect to
get spam. Even if you re-write the email address to be foo AT bar DOT com,
that is just as easily parsed by a robot as foo@bar.com.

Really, the only way to deal with spam is to use filters. Here is what I use
and it works pretty well...

    <http://www.whichever.com/junkfilter/>

(I also got that stainless steel email on other non-tigris related lists as
well. So, that means that you are probably better off just filtering it
using spam filters.)

-jon

on 1/16/02 11:04 AM, "Jason Robbins" <jrobbins@collab.net> wrote:

>> spam at tigris
>> should i file? did everyone get the same?
>
>
> Yes. Sorry. Apparently some spammer has decided to mine our web
> content for email addresses.
>
> Long ago we used to write email addresses as "username at tigris dot
> org". We stopped doing that because spam did not seem to be a
> problem, and some new users throught it was an error on our site that
> you could not simply click an email address.
>
> I think it is time to change things back and more agressively prevent
> email mining. I dont have a schedule for when that will happen just
> yet. Let me see what changes I can make today to partly solve the
> problem.
>
> If you got the stainless steel spam at some email address that was not
> "username@tigris.org", that means that your email address is in some
> HTML page in your project. You might want to change that.
>
> BTW, we have had very low spam on the mailing lists because they are
> moderated.
>
> jason!

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