On Aug 25, 2009, at 7:42 AM, skip@pobox.com wrote:
The other thing about Mailman's obfuscation is that I sorta think
that by now the spammers have figured it out. I mean, "skip at pobox.com"?
Come on. Even Barry stands a good chance of writing a regular expression
that can locate something like that, his self-deprecation about his r.e.
prowess notwithstanding. :-) If nothing else, all an enterprising spammer
would have to do is steal Mailman's email address matcher and replace "@"
with " at ". Oh, wait, it's open source. They wouldn't even have to steal
the code.
I've always wanted to re-architect the archives so that they would /
always/ vend the messages from an active process. I wouldn't have any
static files, except a cache for efficiency, and I would generate the
HTML on demand. My guess is that 99% of all archived messages are
never read by a human. The problem of course is spiders but I guess
they'll just warm up your cache. ;/
This would allow:
- easy redeployment of new obfuscation techniques
- on demand take downs or sanitization
- easy site regeneration for style changes.
-Barry