[sac-board] Re: Fw: a compassionate call from iraq

E-mail addresses within the mail server itself, should be reasonably secure.
Some of the new SPAM bots go to great lengths to harvest published e-mail
addresses from web pages, text files, and .PDF files, no matter how smart or
clever you've tried to disguise them. i.e. javascript.  The only way I've
found is to actually make a graphic of the e-mail address and display that
on the web site with no hot-link associated with it.  While it does give the
user your e-mail address to contact you, they have to actually type it into
the "To:" field on their e-mail message.

/Bob
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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Bob Erdmann - Core Team Member & Webmaster
The NGC/IC Project - http://www.ngcic.org
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Dickson" <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <SAC-Board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: [sac-board] Re: Fw: a compassionate call from iraq


> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:02:32 -0700, Thad Robosson wrote:
>
> >
> > > I got this from at the secretary at saguaroastro address.  Did anyone
else?
> > >
> > > From: Prince Abdul-Razaq Jubril <princeofkisik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: secretary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <secretary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:44 PM
> > > Subject: a compassionate call from iraq
> >
> >
> > Yes, I got the EXACT same one.  This must be coming from somewhere, and
I
> > don't think it's the SAC site, unless the spamcrawlers can read the PDF
or
> > ZIP newsletter files on the site.  Bob, does the site we change our
> > passwords on have some sort of countermeasures for our email addys, or
is it
> > otherwise secure from this?
>
> I have a command "pdftotext" which converts a PDF into a text file.  A
> simple "grep" command for "@"'s in the text found all of the E-mail
> addresses.
>
> -Paul
>
>
>
>

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