Spam and the OEIS
Leroy Quet
qq-quet at mindspring.com
Mon Oct 24 20:27:55 CEST 2005
My email address does not appear in many places on-line.
However, one place it does appear is in the OEIS (even if disguised by
using an "(AT)" in place of "@").
Well, I am still getting spam. And I wonder if either:
1) Some spam-bots can see right through that "(at)" for what it truly is.
2) a) My email address is being harvested from someone else's computer,
someone who is likely part of SeqFan.
b) The spam is being sent to the SeqFan list as a whole.
Maybe we need a better way to hide the @'s in our email addresses as they
appear on the OEIS, if that is the way the spam is getting to me.
SeqFan has a spam-block, doesn't it? (I seem to recall hearing about such
a block in a discussion from years ago.)
Today I did not get much spam.
I did get, and I am wondering if others on SeqFan got this too, a spam
email twice that was entitled "WINNING CONFIRMATION NOTICE". (Obviously
spam, there isn't any need to open to know this.)
thanks,
Leroy Quet
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