[OT] Re: Poster to this lists email address not obfuscated?

Incoming from Håkon Alstadheim:
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Florian Kulzer:
s. keeling wrote:

Consider joining my (ad hoc) "Poison The Well" project:

http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html

sender address by the spammers? How do you make sure not to include any
addresses of legitimate users in your list?

They're already being used. I receive spam addressed from
keeling@xxxxxxxxxxx, which doesn't surprise me. "My posting them ...

Pardon my bluntness, but your scheme is just dumb. The vast majority of
sender-adresses on spam emails are spoofed. Look up e-mail spoof in any

Yes, or auto-generated. I don't care what they are or where they came
from. I only care about gumming up their list of potential *recipient
addresses*, which they (according to the study) glean by 'bots and
spiders scraping web pages for email addresses. Any garbage is
fine for that. When spammers start sending mail to non-existent
accounts more often than existing ones, it'll be a waste of their time
and money. Good.


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