[nycbug-talk] Re: Spam probes

[George Georgalis]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:22:52PM -0500, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>On Nov 9, 2004, at 17:10, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:33:39PM -0500, Ah Pook wrote:
>>>On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:45 am, a nice bug wrote:
>>>>It's not even hardly safe to try to obfuscate addresses any more, 
>>>>they
>>>>still get picked up, since spammers' harvesting scripts seem to have 
>>>>a
>>>>mind-boggling understanding of linguistics and word construction
>>>>these days. Smart enough to always skip the anonimized addresses on
>>>>craigslist too, from what I can tell..
>>>
>>>I've been having luck so far (knock on wood) with using entities - do
>>>something like s/(.)/"&#".ord($1).";"/eg which turns my address into
>>>
>>>ahpook@opt
>>>online.net
>>>
>>>It's nice because it renders fine on the page, and you can still stick
>>>that into a mailto: and have it work.
>>
>>nice regex! I know you can run "mailto:" through it too to help hide 
>>it.
>>err but it doesn't seem to work...
>>
>>echo galis.org | sed -e 's/(.)/"&#".ord($1).";"/g'
>>galis.org
>
>I don't know if sed has any sort of ord operator..
>
>% echo "galis.org" | python -c "print ''.join([('&#%d;' % ord(c)) for c 
>in raw_input()])"
>galis.org

I wonder how Ah Pook uses it?

// George

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