Re: [anti-spam-wg] antispam suggestion
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From: Walter Ian Kaye walter@localhost
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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:42:56 -0700
At 12:41 p +0400 10/19/2007, Alexander Kolesnik didst inscribe upon
an electronic papyrus:
Dear sirs,
Last time I'm receiving a lot of spam to my RIPE contact
email.
I have a suggestion that will probably help to reduce spam to emails
provided in RIPE whois output:
1. Substitute email addresses in whois output with something like "use
http://www.ripe.net/whois";
Replacing an email address with an HTTP URL is good. (Although just
today I got a spam via my web form; but that is so inefficient for a
spammer, it's rarely used. How flattering that they bothered. Heh.)
2. Substitute letters in emails at http://www.ripe.net/whois with
their graphical representation or use javascript to build the text
that spam robots will be unable to parse.
3. Add following text to your whois web-engine: "You need
javascript-compatible (graphics-compatible) browser to see emails".
Locking out text-only browsers like Lynx is bad.
There are many ways to text-munge an email address. For example:
tldcomdommicrosoftusrbillg or billg [at] microsoft [dot] com
A human can figure that out easily but it'll just look like a random
string to a spambot. The encoding format could even change at random
intervals.
-Walter
a Lynx user (even on Mac OS X)
