Re: bkbits - "@" question

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sat Oct 23 2004 - 05:31:25 EST


>> * Larry McVoy asked:
>> The web pages on bkbits.net contain email addresses. This is
>> probably about a 4 year too late question but would it help reduce
>> spam if we did something like s/@/ (at) / for all those addresses?
>>
>> * Christoph Hellwig answered:
>> No.
>
>Why not, please?

Counter-example... when I stopped posting to NNTP, the amount of spam also
decreased. Probably because the bots only skim a fixed timeperiod. In a long
term, I think it's a good choice to replace it. Maybe some PHP magic that
either puts <at>, [at] or (at) randomly there for each page request.



Jan Engelhardt
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