Spam and the OEIS

[Brendan McKay]

Spammers collect email addresses by the ton and sell them to each
other. They don't go looking for addresses every time they have
something to send.

If your address is on one of their lists it will stay there
forever and trying to disguise it now will just be closing 
the stable door after the horses have bolted.

Brendan.

* Leroy Quet <qq-quet at mindspring.com> [051025 04:30]:
> 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