Re: The ..... worm

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 14:12:43 +0200,
> Francois Suter <dba(at)paragraf(dot)ch> wrote:
>
>>I am not sure this is really going to help, because the e-mail
>>addresses are also harvested from the web-based archives. Still doesn't
>>such a reknowned ML tool as Majordomo have a feature that can hide
>>e-mail addresses (like automatically write them as someone AT any DOT
>>com) in the web archives?
>
>
> That isn't a real solution. Any standard way of munging addresses in a
> reversable way will result in spammers writing a tool to extract the
> addresses. So if you don't spammers to get addresses off the web archives,
> then you don't want addresses there.
>
Check this out:

http://nlug.org/listserv.php

They only show graphical images of the return addresses. You'd have to
use text recognition software to harvest them.

Don't know what software they use, though; might be homegrown for all I
know.