FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: Spam to mail adress despite mailguard

[Anika Henke <a.c.henke@xxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Gohr wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:52:21 +0200
> Anika Henke <a.c.henke@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > K. Bauckmeier-PTW Dresden wrote:
> >
> > > Hi list, in the dokuwiki at splitbrain.org I used a special E-Mail
> > > Adress from spamgourmet.com to sign some of my post.
> > >
> > > Dokuwiki uses mailguard = visible - replaces @ with [at], . with
> > > [dot] and - with [dash] and today I received the first spam-mail to
> > > this adress from "Gold Lottery" (I am ritch now).
> > >
> > > I guess the adress harvesters have changed their programms to
> > > replace [at] back to @, so the visible mailguard sould not be
> > > assumed to be safe anymore.
> >
> > No anti-spam mechanism is 100% safe! It never was.
> > During the years the mailguard set to "visible" might change from 90% 
> > safe to 85% safe and less ... *shrug*
>
>
> Exactly.
>
> Interesting nontheless. I did have a quick look at the code. For
> adding other methods (eg. use an image for the @ or even create an image
> for the whole address) we would either need to change the obfuscate
> function or move some handling out of this function...
>
> I'd like to get the input of others - especially reusers of this
> function (eg. Plugin authors). Do we need better obfuscation? Or can we
> live with what we have?

Although I don't think too much care should be spent on mail obfuscation 
(because at one point it always seems useless and frustrating anyway), 
I'd like it to be a bit better.
What about at least a combination of 'visible' and 'hex'?
And I wouldn't mind a third and/or fourth obfuscation mode either ...


Anika
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