[Tutor] AntiSpam measures circumventing

[Luca Ferrari]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Jugurtha Hadjar
<jugurtha.hadjar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Supposing my name is John Doe and the e-mail is john.doe at hotmail.com, my
> e-mail was written like this:
>
> REMOVEMEjohn.doSPAMeSPAM at REMOVEMEhotmail.com'

This is the point: how easy you want to make the email for a human
being. I mean, you can also reverse letters, substitute dots with
commas, and so on, and you will find a kind of email that is useless,
but it will be really hard for a human being to use it out of the box.
So far I guess the best anti spam countermesure is:
- publish something like "name <dot> surname <at> domain1 <dot>
domain2" where you do not reveal explicitly name and surname (that is,
the information requires a little reasoning)
- use a good antispam filter.

An image is not a solution, in my opinion, since users (human beings)
are not good at copying one character at a time, so you need to
provide some kind of copy and paste functionality, that steps back to
the original problem.

Luca