ack. Thanks, Rick. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Rick Taubold <[email protected]>wrote:
> Eric, > > The correct email address is conprog at rochester dot rr dot com. One "n". > > Rick Taubold > www.ricktaubold.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Eric Scoles <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:49 AM > *Subject:* Re: Astronomicon Panels > > If you read Groups messages on the web, email addresses are obfuscated to > foil email harvesting 'bots. E.g.: > The address as I see it in email is conprog at rochester.rr.com ( > [email protected]). (Rick, can you correct me of that's not > right?) > > Since most Groups are world-readable, email addresses would be available to > email-harvesting 'bots if they weren't obfuscated somehow. It's a constant > struggle. On the one side, the forces of light don't want to lose the > benefit of a clickable email link, on the other is some Russian with a few > ten-thousand Python scripts scraping the web for valid email addresses > wherever it can find them. A lot of websites try to obfuscate the addresses > in ways that make it not cost effective for the 'bots to harvest them, while > still making them clickable in browsers. > > Google's solution is simpler: just break the address. > > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:49 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > PLEASE SEND ALL RESPONSES AND QUESTIONS TO ME AT: >> [email protected] >> >> Rick, this got truncated, right? Could you post the full address? >> >> Does everybody else have these problems with the Google Groups reader? >> >> Steve >> >> > > > -- > eric scoles ([email protected]) > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
