At 11:37 AM -0500 2/18/03, George Matyjewicz wrote: ... >>http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/lists.html > >Wonderful. That means an e-mail extractor program can point to that >address and get all e-addresses. That sucks. Most list servers have a
So can a subscriber. In fact, for all I know there's a subscriber who archives everything ever sent here, and would be willing to sell it all for a price (probably cheap!). Once messages are in subscribers' hands, they're no longer in our control. That's just the nature of email & lists. >provision to cripple the e-addresses which can only be understood by >looking at them, i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes georgem(at)gapent.com ... George, you're speaking to a list that has seen programmers defeat initial versions of Jay's Turing number deployed to stop automated "door rattling" attacks on weak passphrases....Do you honestly think that this measure would even slow-down the spammers? (Look at how Slashdot's obfuscation has evolved, an "(at)" apparently isn't nearly enough anymore.) They may be ineffective at business, but spammers are persistent -- and once one spammer has an email address, effectively they all have it. JMR --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
