Re: [ANNOUNCE] lua-l archive at lua-users.org

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

> Steve Dekorte wrote:
> >
> > Yes, please do that. Something as simple as:
> > 
> >    address = gsub(gsub(address, "@", " at "), "%.", " dot ")
> > 
> > would be sufficient.
> > 
> > Steve
> 
> Not really. The spammer's bots can easily substitute those back 
> again to the real email address. Spammers can use regexps as well
> as we can. 
> 
> Björn De Meyer 

I agree. I always wondered of the usefulness of such obfuscation. It was
probably effective the first times, but since almost everybody use the same
tricks ("philho.NO_SPAM@gmx.NO_SPAM.net", "PhiLho at GMX dot net" or such), I bet
some spammers harvest and normalize these addresses as well. Or not?

Regards.

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