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Re: alternative to fwrite?

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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.
>>
>> 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. 
> 
> 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.

<snip>

-- 
Curtis Dyer
<?$x='<?$x=%c%s%c;printf($x,39,$x,39);?>';printf($x,39,$x,39);?>

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alternative to fwrite? Mr Oldies <noreply@example.com> - 2013-10-01 10:27 -0400
  Re: alternative to fwrite? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2013-10-01 15:22 +0000
  Re: alternative to fwrite? Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-01 17:58 +0200
  Re: alternative to fwrite? "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-01 17:03 +0000
    Re: alternative to fwrite? richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-10-01 15:25 -0400
      Re: alternative to fwrite? "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-02 00:39 +0000
      Re: alternative to fwrite? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-10-02 07:52 -0400
        Re: alternative to fwrite? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-10-02 12:46 -0700
          Re: alternative to fwrite? richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-10-03 22:31 -0400
    Re: alternative to fwrite? Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-10-02 07:01 -0700
      Re: alternative to fwrite? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-02 14:58 -0400
        Re: alternative to fwrite? Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-10-02 13:37 -0700
          Re: alternative to fwrite? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-02 20:00 -0400
            Re: alternative to fwrite? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-10-02 19:37 -0500
              Re: alternative to fwrite? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-03 13:51 -0400
                Re: alternative to fwrite? Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> - 2013-10-04 00:06 +0000
        Re: alternative to fwrite? richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-10-03 22:19 -0400
          Re: alternative to fwrite? Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-10-19 22:28 -0700
        Re: alternative to fwrite? Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-10-19 22:27 -0700

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