Re: Obfuscating email

From:

Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 17 May 2008 19:15:04 -0700 (PDT)

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On May 18, 6:12 am, Andrea Francia <andrea.fran...@REMOVE-FROM-
HERE.ohoihihoihoih.TO-HERE.gmx.it> wrote:

Mark Space wrote:

I was just looking at one of the quotation lines from this newsgroup:

Andrea Francia
<andrea.fran...@REMOVE-FROM-HERE.ohoihihoihoih.TO-HERE.gmx.it> writes:

I think the best way for obfuscating email is to use address like

see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid

Adding '.invalid' has an extra point in its favor.

Any smart server that sees an address ending in '.invalid'
will immediately 'lose it and think nothing further about
the matter'.

'.invalid' is a warning to servers that this is most
certainly an invalid address, and there is no need to
burden other servers with it.

I urge all posters to these groups who use invalid
addresses to please add '.invalid' to the end of them.

Martin Gregorie made a good point about email scrapers
missing many trivially obfuscated addresses, that reflects
my own experience as well. As a result, I do not think
that adding such a deliberate 'flag' that an address is
obfuscated, is going to bring an address much closer
to being 'de'obfuscated.

--
Andrew T.
PhySci.org