From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Nov  6 10:53:22 2003
Subject: Re: A little more privacy
From: "robert Macy" <macy at california dot com>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:53:05 -0800

You ARE lucky.

I only use this email address for serious stuff.  But last
year while searching for a BH Curve for material I found a
great scientific list of resources, each one a gem,
EXCEPT....one of them whisked me off to a porn website! I
pulled the phone link physically out of the wall to
interrupt, but too late.  I complained to the "onwer" of
the scientific link about the inappropriate link he had
buried in his list.  He apologized, said he'd remove it,
don't know if he did.  

For about six months after that I had to keep cleaning my
INBOX with Chlorox.  

                 - Robert -


On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:54:45 +0200 (EET)
 Radu Prekup <radu at cens dot ioc dot ee> wrote:
> > Don't email harvesters see thought that little trick by
> now?
> >
> >
> >   Lute.
> >
> Probably. With regex it should be quite straightforward
> to avoid this
> trick. Probably a better trick is to partially hide the
> email addresses at
> the listserver so that to see a address you have to click
> it. A bot would
> have to move around a lot to get any addresses and then
> the server could
> easly ban him.
> 
> I haven't studied this spamming problem a lot, but I get
> rarely any spam
> on my main email address, because I use it only for
> serious stuff. For
> spam I have my hotmail address :)
> 
> Radu.
> 
> 
> 
>
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