Subject: Re: SPAM Alert: Email Address Harvesting
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20040104T140052@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/04/2004 14:03:21
hpeyerl@beer.org (Herb Peyerl) writes:
> "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang+gnus20040104T125342@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com> wrote:
> >
> > One anti-swen trick is to put the string "spam" someplace in your
> > FQDN. Note the pseduo-host that I used in postings and mailinglists.
> > It works like a champ. I haven't gotten a swen to it yet.
>
> I'm not familiar with that. What does it do?
I swen appears to assume that any email address with the word "spam"
in it is somehow munged and avoids mailing to it. In general that is
probably a good guess that the address is munged, judging from all the
foo@exaSPAMple.com type addresses one sees on the net.
-wolfgang
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