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Dave Korn wrote: |>An improved version that collects addresses that are restricted to |>subscribers, processes more lists and works more parallelized is |>planned. | | | Why?
The addresses of mailing list subscribers are top quality to spammers. It's just a matter of time until one exploits this. I'd rather want us to close this hole before this happens.
| You hoping to sell it to spammers?
I'm on the anti spammers side, but hey, I'm rather low on money so if theres a good offer, I just might do that. 1 cent/address. If it collects 1 million addresses, that would be 10,000 euros. That's my price. And there are programmers who don't have objections working for spammers. They even make worms that act as mail relays. See how real the danger is?
| Obfuscating *works*;
The report you cited is about individuals obfuscating addresses in individual ways. Mailman is a widespread mailing list manager and obfuscates very many addresses in a uniform way. This makes it much more attractive for spammers. If you hoped this would remain unnoticed by spammers I'm sorry to disappoint you, but security by obscurity does not work.
| if YOU break it, that makes YOU a spamming motherfucker.
This seems to bother you. Would you feel better if someone else did it without anyone noticing it? Hey, it may already be happening.
| Why don't you go fuck yourself instead?
I'm too busy fucking my girl friend.
| Oh, and by the way | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uh, fuck!
Oh, BTW, obscuring or hiding email addresses wont's solve the problem. Hashcash or ecash probably will.
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