[Elecraft] Re: Spam alert

Thu May 1 21:29:01 2003

The Elecraft archives at mailman.qth.net do the same thing as Martin's 
searchable archive. They do not use the '@' character in the email address. 
Instead use an escape hex code of %40, which displays as an '@' when viewed in 
a web browser but does not decode as an ascii '@' when the source is scanned 
by a SPAM robot. So both Martin's and the mailman archives are protected from 
spammers (for the moment ;^).

73, Eric  WA6HHQ
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Martin AC6RM wrote:
> My understanding is that spam bots look for the character '@' as the
> starting point for digging out an email address when they scrape web
> pages.  If you do a "view" "source" on archive messages, you'll notice
> that there aren't any as they are encoded.  It's kinda clever, actually
> (wasn't my brainchild; came with the package).
> 
> I'm sure the bots'll get more intelligent, but then so will the archivers.
>  A never-ending story, I'm afraid (as long as there's money in it).
> 
> You'll note that I subscribe to this list with the email address
> "elecraft(at)ac6rm.net".  I did that on purpose.  I own the ac6rm.net
> domain so I can create any email address I want within that domain and do
> anything I want with it.  The point being that if I receive spam addressed
> to that email address then I know they got the email address from the
> elecraft list, somehow, or because someone put it on their web page.
> 
> To date, I have received no -- that's zero -- spam addressed to that email
> address (knock-on-K2-case), and I've been subscribed since around
> Christmas.
> 
> I have, however, received BOAT LOADS of spam directed to my ARRL.NET
> alias.  I shut that down a few weeks ago it was so bad.  I also get it
> addressed to pgsql(at)ac6rm.net -- my postgresql list subscription
> address.
> 
> Anyhoozit, I cannot speak for the mailman.qth.net archives; only the ones
> I maintain.
> 
> 73, Martin AC6RM K2#3021
> 
> 
> - - - - - - -
> 
> I agree, and right away.
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> dave belsley, w1euy
> 
> --On Thursday, May 1, 2003 6:29 PM +0200 Jibeji <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> All these softwares are efficient but perhaps the best solution is to
> suppress our addresses from the archive ?
> 
> 
> --
> F8DQL - UFT 1116
> K2/100 #3249
> 
> 
> 
> 
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