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From: clawrenc@cup.hp.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 97 14:55:48 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
In <33CFD425.167EB0E7@iname.com>, on 07/18/97
at 01:45 PM, Shawn Halpenny <malachai@iname.com> said:
>clawrenc@cup.hp.com wrote:
>> Without the last rule "bubba@site.dom" would become "bubba&site,com".
>> With the last rule it would become, "site,dom&bubba". The reason for
>> this approach as versus BrandonG's approach of nuking the entire
>> UserID section of the email address is that it remains fully human
>> readable and human usable as is, and no sematic content is lost. Only
>> machine processing abilities are lost. <<The choice of replacement
>> characters is not cast in stone. I could also see doing a
>> "bubba(at)site,dom".>>
>>
>> The address munging pattern would be posted on the web site.
>>
>> <<Yes, it is still machine parsable. I suspect the odds however of
>> a web-scanner unmunging and parsing the above forms and extracting
>> valid email addresses is proximate to zero.>>
>If the details of the munging are publicly available (and the pretty
>much have to be), a determined idiot could conjure something up
>easily. I suppose a determined idiot could work around almost any
>scheme, though.
That's pretty well true of any pattern I devise short of obliterating
the entire email address. Given dedication and a half-functioning
neurone, it can be reversed. My bet is that the (comparitively)
paltry membership of the list will not be a tempting enough target for
a web scanner. Who is going to special case for merely a few score
addresses?
> ...Side note: would spelling out the '@' and the '.'
>make it any less parsable?
Possibly, but doubt its effectiveness.
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