Debian Bug report logs - #170334
debbugs: Could web interface disguise email addresses to prevent spam?

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Adam M. Costello" <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: debbugs: Could web interface disguise email addresses to prevent spam?

Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:16:39 +0000

Package: debbugs
Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-22
Severity: wishlist

On Monday I used an email address for the very first time, to submit a
bug, and four days later I received spam at that address (which I have
now disabled).  Presumably this is because spammers are crawling the web
and snarfing up email addresses.

Maybe the web interface should rewrite the email addresses to make them
harder for the robots to find.  Here are some ideas:

user at ___domain.net

user<!--
no spam
-->&#64;<!--
no spam
-->___domain.net

The latter will look perfectly normal when rendered by the browser,
and will be cut-and-pastable, but might be sufficiently confusing to
the robots (they'd have to correctly deal with entity references, line
breaks, and HTML comments).  The former requires human editing before it
can be used, but might be better at confusing the robots.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux arwen 2.4.19 #2 SMP Fri Nov 22 02:47:50 GMT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <[email protected]>

To: "Adam M. Costello" <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#170334: debbugs: Could web interface disguise email addresses to prevent spam?

Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:54:25 +0000

reassign 170334 bugs.debian.org
severity 63995 wishlist
merge 63995 170334
thanks

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:16:39PM +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote:
> Package: debbugs
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-22
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> On Monday I used an email address for the very first time, to submit a
> bug, and four days later I received spam at that address (which I have
> now disabled).  Presumably this is because spammers are crawling the web
> and snarfing up email addresses.
> 
> Maybe the web interface should rewrite the email addresses to make them
> harder for the robots to find.  Here are some ideas:

Hi,

There's some discussion of the pros and cons of this in bug #63995
against bugs.debian.org.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [[email protected]]

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From: "FedEx SameDay" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Notification status of your delivery (FedEx 0000698049)

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:01:24 +0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Dear Customer,

Your item has arrived at January 22, but our courier was not able to deliver the parcel.

You can download the shipment label attached!

Respectfully yours,
Edwin Peck,
Support Agent.

[Undelivered-Package-0000698049.zip (application/zip, attachment)]

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From: Dr Patrick Awoonor <[email protected]>

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Subject: Re: h

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:27:32 +0000

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> Did you receive my previous email?
>
> Dr Patrick Awoonor
>

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