> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jani tiainen > Sent: 23 April 2004 10:41
> Err, and do you really think that spam-mail-address gatherers are so > stupid Rule #1 in full effect! > that they can't extract mail from <somename at > somewhere dot com> format..? Yes, actually. There's a broad concensus among the spamfighting community that there isn't actually any email-address-snarfing software out there that actually does bother to attempt to demunge addresses. When non-munged addresses are out there to be spidered off the web and hoovered up from usenet by their tens of millions, why bother going to the effort of writing extra code, when the spammers can already get more addresses than they know what to do with anyway? Seriously, it really seems to be the case that it just doesn't happen to any significant extent. Talk to n.a.n.a.e for more information. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/