Re: Spam prevention

[Marcelo Toledo <marcelo@marcelotoledo.org>]

I think the same way the spam bot searchs for @ it can search for _A@T_
or anything else, also, if it was dynamic with random formats it would
be better, but the author of the bot could simply grab our source and
update his bot with all the formats.

IMHO this change will not help spam prevention.

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Do people think this is worth even trying?
> Are address harvesters still blocked by such simple things?
>
> To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.linux)
> Organization: Private
> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:06:07 +0300
> Subject: [patch] 21.3 add-log.el::add-log-mailing-address security (spam)
> Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+rms=gnu.org@gnu.org
>
>
> The following change will help selecting more appropriate default for
> displayed identity in ChangeLogs. This helps fighting against spam
> harversters by not letting then simply rip out all that looks like
> "@". This is naturally tip of the iceberg, but I believe any measure
> to improve security should be included in Emacs as well.
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