spam protection on mailing list archives

[Keith Matthews]

On Thu, 08 May 2003 22:23:57 +0300
Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> wrote:

> Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> >I'll second what Brian said, if you read the GMANE FAQ it says that
> >the general consensus in the anti-spam community is that spam bots
> >don't do even trivial unobfustucation, at least for now.
> >  
> >
> That's no longer the case, I'm afraid. I got spam to an email address 
> that was only published obfuscated 
> (http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php - bottom comment is
> mine).
> 
> I suspect that spammers do collect obfuscated addresses from specific 
> sites they know how to decode (a google search, 
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=phpcomment%40shemesh.biz&btnG=Google+Search,
> 
> did not bring anything up).
> 
> I vote for either totally hiding the email address, or doing
> javascript decryption with different keys for different archive posts
> (code at http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/).

If the link between wine-users and c.e.m.w gets operational again it
will need the same treatment.

My vote also goes to complete hiding - does anyone really want any
direct mail from people who are not on the list.