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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Dennis Holverstott wrote:
> > If I were to zip the archives, would this prevent the spambots
> > from finding the email addresses?
>
> Sure, that should work fine.
I'd be a bit careful with this. Back some time ago, spambots were getting
rather sophisticated - getting around several oft-used changes in
addresses to get to the real address. If they are going to this much
trouble, it would not be hard to include an unzipper function just to
check for pay dirt, especially if it's a large file with many addresses,
next to a large number of similar files. A gold mine for them, with
easy access to everyone's address :-).
Better to strip all addresses - relatively easy to do with a pgm.
Larry
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