| Re: alternative to fwrite? [message #183027 is a reply to message #183023] |
Fri, 04 October 2013 00:06   |
Curtis Dyer
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Twayne wrote:
> On 2013-10-02 8:37 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:00:01 -0400, Twayne wrote:
>>> On 2013-10-02 4:37 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 10/2/2013 11:58 AM, Twayne wrote:
>>>> > On 2013-10-02 10:01 AM, Evan Platt wrote:
> ...
>>> OK or some, dangerous for others as bots regularly probe &
>>> scan newsgroups, mining for e-mails to scrape up.
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>> Unless it got MORE popular than two years ago, that is not the
>> case. Email addresses posted on websites, even as "userpart at
>> example.com" started receiving spam in less than a week. Email
>> addresses posted to newsgroups alone took an average of five
>> weeks to start receiving spam, and confined to addresses
>> posting to very popular alt.* groups. Big 8-only didn't get
>> picked up at all until we shut down the experiment after three
>> months.
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> TWO years? Please check up on some current events in this area;
> a LOT has changed, especially in the last two years. But not
> scraping addresses; it's still very common.
> One positive thing that has happened, is ISPs have become
> much better at protecting their clients inboxes. Mine does a
> stellar job. But the scraping continues unabated.
I've found the best approach, for now, is getting better filtering.
Google seems to do a nice job. I don't bother with munging my email
anymore, yet I almost never get spam in my inbox.
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