> # There are several sites that convert FAQs to HTML automatically.
> # You can expect that a mailto: tag will be added to each address
> # in your FAQ...
>
> And your point is ? These sites are not a problem; the fact that there
> are vaild mailto addresses there is not a problem.
>
> Spammers can harvest Usenet messages much easier.
Kent is right, they're a lot more aggressive. I work as an ISP administrator,
and I've taken measures to prevent spam from being sent to my customers. The
other day I found the strangest address being used as a spam target.
I looked it up on Dejanews, and found it on a FAQ. It wasn't *even* a valid
address, it was a message id! The FAQ maintainer had quoted Usenet articles
verbatim into his FAQ, and spammers couldn't tell the difference between
message id's and real email addresses.
-- Thamer Al-Herbish Public PGP key can be found at shadows@whitefang.com http://www.whitefang.com/pgpkey.txt [ Maintainer of the Raw IP Networking FAQ http://www.whitefang.com/rin/ ]