[sac-board] Re: Spam for the Prez....A question for BobE.,Stan, and Paul.....

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:48:13 -0600, cvsc1 wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:36:23 -0700 dickson wrote:
> 
> >When I look at it, I see no usable addresses there.
> >
> I did not mean that an address was fully intack, but that all required info 
> to piece it together is & I'm not sure just how smart the spam bots have 
> gotten.
> 
> -Stan

The subject lines in the archives are kept intact.  Thus Rick has posted
his SAC address there on Tuesday.

Spam bots do not read English text.  Only humans do.  The only way someone
to put it together would be to read the text and understand the context.
This is one thing machines can not do yet, despite paranoia to the
contrary.

Most likely the newsletter is the culprit.

Perhaps Bob Erdmann can create a test mailbox and give that address to
Rick Tejera for inclusion in the next newsletter (to be done the same way
addresses are handled in the current issue).  If the mailbox then got
spam, we would know for sure whether is was the newsletter.  The address
would have to go directly from Bob to Rick, not through this list.

        -Paul

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