Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/23/12:42:48
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX]
Umm, given the subject, this is particularly vile. :-D
> > Sent: 23 September 2004 16:44
>
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> > > > Sent: 23 September 2004 15:40
>
> > > > <idle speculation>
> > > > Hmm. I wonder if I just replaced all of the '@'s with a png
> > > > of an '@', if that would foil the spammers.
> > > > <pause>
> > > > Nope. Wouldn't work for the text archives.
> > > > </idle speculation>
> > >
> > > How about a big ascii-art one then? THaT WuLd BE SOOooOO B1FF!!1!
> > > AND K00L!!1!2!
> >
> > You mean, like "`banner -c@ @`"? ;-)
>
> dk AT mace /win/c/> `banner -c@ @`
> bash: @@@@: command not found
>
> AAAAAAARRRGHGHGHGHG!!!1!!!! ToO MANy QuOTEZ!:!:! ;-P~~~
Umm, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YOWTWYWT>. Try
[user AT host] echo "`banner -c@ @`"
> > Ugh, I can just see the following pasted command line getting mungled:
> >
> > user AT host>command.com something
>
> LOL, I was just thinking about what would happen if someone harvested
> that address and tried to spam it, and then I was thinking, hey, I
> wonder.... lookee what I found!
>
> http://www.command.com/
Well, the e-mail address would be invalid anyway (contains a ">"), but the
point was that *mangling* it would result in havoc.
> > (and that's just off the top of my head, there must surely be others).
>
> Yeh, that's why I suggested clamping down on the chars that would be
> accepted by replacing the .* with a [] charset.
>
> > IOW, it's not as easy as it seems at first.
>
> I know. Didn't even attempt to deal with emails of the form
> <root@[127.0.0.1]>. Sure there are lots of other corner cases too. It
> was a rough approximation JFTHOI.
Hmm... If this gets picked up and used, it's definite OLOCA fodder. :-D
> [ There are plenty of rfc822-detecting regexen out there, although not
> all of them are complete nor correct;
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=regex+rfc822 ]
It might be better/easier/safer to just filter out things like
"mailto:email AT address" or "{date} email AT address wrote" (the more common
reply lead-ins) or something.
Igor
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