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rowan · 03-23-2008, 11:14 PM

This is the reason I no longer post to many mailing lists: their web archives use a very simple form of obfuscation (eg "username at domain dot com") which won't fool anything but the most stupid harvester. I made a single post with a 100% new email addr and it wasn't long before it was receiving spam.

The only way to stop it being harvested is to make it complicated enough that it requires a few steps to "construct" the correct address, but that won't stop assholes adding you manually.

03-23-2008, 11:14 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	This is the reason I no longer post to many mailing lists: their web archives use a very simple form of obfuscation (eg "username at domain dot com") which won't fool anything but the most stupid harvester. I made a single post with a 100% new email addr and it wasn't long before it was receiving spam. The only way to stop it being harvested is to make it complicated enough that it requires a few steps to "construct" the correct address, but that won't stop assholes adding you manually.