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From: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: [OT] Email address. Re: i want to re-download all packages... how?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:38 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jani tiainen
> Sent: 23 April 2004 10:41

> Err, and do you really think that spam-mail-address gatherers are so 
> stupid

  Rule #1 in full effect!

> that they can't extract mail from <somename at 
> somewhere dot com> format..? 

  Yes, actually.

  There's a broad concensus among the spamfighting community that there
isn't actually any email-address-snarfing software out there that actually
does bother to attempt to demunge addresses.  When non-munged addresses are
out there to be spidered off the web and hoovered up from usenet by their
tens of millions, why bother going to the effort of writing extra code, when
the spammers can already get more addresses than they know what to do with
anyway?

  Seriously, it really seems to be the case that it just doesn't happen to
any significant extent.

  Talk to n.a.n.a.e for more information.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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