Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.106 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.79; '*S*': 0.00; 'comment,': 0.09; 'subject:skip:c 10': 0.09; 'url:blog': 0.10; 'cc:addr:python- list': 0.11; 'django': 0.11; 'wrote': 0.14; '(at)': 0.16; '(dot)': 0.16; 'article:': 0.16; 'degree.': 0.16; 'example).': 0.16; 'kung': 0.16; 'reassuring.': 0.16; 'stuff,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '(in': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'text,': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'least': 0.26; 'certain': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; "i'm": 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'lists': 0.32; 'everyone': 0.33; 'plain': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'add': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'joined': 0.36; 'shows': 0.36; 'effort': 0.37; 'so,': 0.37; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.38; 'gmail': 0.38; 'lists.': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'url:2012': 0.39; 'address.': 0.39; 'mailing': 0.39; 'called': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'tell': 0.60; 'numbers': 0.61; 'address': 0.63; 'exchange': 0.63; 'spam.': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'linked': 0.65; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'media': 0.66; 'here': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'social': 0.69; 'websites': 0.72; 'address,': 0.75; 'you:': 0.81; 'add-on': 0.84; 'battle.': 0.84; 'joel': 0.91; 'fight': 0.97 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DQ05WBnBU8z1D9Tf0Xb4eQU0s8wTa25qRtocexKXelQ=; b=jo6xSutABKnhD44+E3FomQzr0ffABMZ24XhEnWTJg5gzJ6cZgFqLn4yMj8/PhOc/B4 /giTmyY192Q5YBcPLO0tG773W0SBdzD6cuLUyUJ5p1U2NF8Ex72Igwz2MQORRITPgVf7 RiILkP+QFuVQBNJC0i8Hz21+Ta1B1938vf4tff/iqXuxr8y9dp7xbf52At/6pTrEbuiU 9LNGi7QPlVrMPjz2WU6Rs4DBoLDymdHmrQMACuJjqISBHoUgjo0hok+bP3+DES56Kriy hagveJwpTOJTnr71gKe5E+y5kVipEbjrKIKc2+UK9MooVBuk9VoF3ss/EzK+lc2CXt1Y zuew== X-Received: by 10.15.102.71 with SMTP id bq47mr39584eeb.66.1379844615167; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 03:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:10:13 +0100 From: Jugurtha Hadjar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Goldstick Subject: Re: Antispam measures circumventing References: <523C6402.7090501@gmail.com> <523C7BA6.20902@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "python-list@python.org" X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1379844622 news.xs4all.nl 15899 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48223 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:54579 On 09/20/2013 08:02 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > Last year I was playing around with django forms and wrote some code > that required the user to add some numbers before the form was > submitted. Here is the article: > http://www.joelgoldstick.com/blog/2012/sep/30/django-forms/ > > This isn't exactly what you are asking, but it does give you a change to > let someone send you mail without giving out your email address. > Still interesting. Anything to fight spam. I was thinking more about when your e-mail address is out there (in mailing lists, for example). Some lists do the effort to at least do the (dot) and (at) kung fu to hide your address to a certain degree. Others just put it as a low-hanging fruit, in ole' plain text, ready to harvest. I joined my e-mail address in the code comment, that's why I was thinking that way. > With the onslaught of social media stuff, it feels like sites like > linked in and anything that uses gmail want to get you to give away your > email address, and perhaps give access to everyone in your lists. So, > I'm suggesting its really a loosing battle. > You don't say! There's a Firefox add-on called "Collusion" that shows how websites exchange your data between them and let me tell you: It's not reassuring. > -- > Joel Goldstick > http://joelgoldstick.com -- ~Jugurtha Hadjar,