Collabnet updated its discussion service on Funambol Forge so that now the archives hide the full email addresses of members using a simple obfuscation in the html code through a javascript function.’ Apparently there is no silver bullet to stop 100% of spammers, but as in many cases ‘good enough’ is enough.’ For curiosity and to test the method, I created an email account on gmail and posted a message to the Forge forums. After a month I still haven’t received any spam message on that account.
Today I setup another gmail address as control group. Lets see how long it takes for spammers to pick this secondparenchima@gmail.com. Bets accepted 
I think it will take 5/7 days for the first spam message to come. What do you think?
UPDATE: It took about 2 hours before I got the first spam message sent by a spammer (not by Mauro).
Delivered-To: secondparenchima@gmail.com
Received: by 10.140.207.6 with SMTP id e6cs5143rvg;
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:08:48 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.65.197.16 with SMTP id z16mr383901qbp.25.1234433327837;
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:08:47 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <edge@nb.sympatico.ca>
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Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of edge@nb.sympatico.ca designates 206.47.199.141 as permitted sender) client-ip=206.47.199.141;
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id <20090212100552.CKPM1599.simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@simip10-ac.srvr.bell.ca>;
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:05:52 -0500
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X-Originating-IP: [219.136.252.120]
From: Mrs Sarah Wood <edge@nb.sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: mrchristophermorgan@btinternet.com
To: <info@uknl.org>
Subject: claims of =?iso-8859-1?B?ozEsMDAwLDAwMC4wMA==?= pounds
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 5:05:34 -0500
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send the following: Name,Age,Sex,Country to Email: mrchristophermorgan@bt=
internet.com for the claims of =A31,000,000.00 pounds which was won by YO=
UR ID in our Recent Compaq Bonanza for the use of internet service
Regards
Mrs Sarah Wood
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Eran are discussing. 
Eran 5:58 pm on 29 April, 2012 Permalink |
Great article, but I found an easier way than Storify to do curated newsletters. Did you check out Flashissue? (http://www.flashissue.com), it’s pretty much built around what storify is doing but for newsletter creation, it connects to your mailchimp account too for easy campaign export, also there is a company called Xydo that does it as well, but for 250$ a month and FlashIssue seem to be free from what their beta looks like.
Stef 10:42 am on 3 May, 2012 Permalink |
I didn’t know Flashissue but I’ll surely try it out. Thanks