From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 16:44:07 MDT
--- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:12:05PM -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > You can edit up to 50 files at a time with Edit+ (see
> > http://www.editplus.com) and do global search and replace of your
> > old email address with the new one. I use this to mass update
> > websites as well as correct corrupted address files.
>
> Yes, but that would only solve the problem of changing email
> addresses.
> One major cause of spam is spambots trawling the net for email
> addresses, so giving them the new one would be a mistake
> (http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.pdf). It has to be
> properly mungled, preferably without confusing people too much.
Not a problem, simply use "atnay" and "dotskray" in the usual places. I
don't think the bots are smart enough to read pig latin yet... ;)
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Mike Lorrey
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