[Info-vax] Decuserve.org - Anyone know why it's down?

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-01-12, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2015-01-12, Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
>>
>> just out of curiosity, what about the above do you think would prevent
>> that address from being harvested?  If I can understand it a program
>> certainly could.  I will openly admit that as good as I am at Jeopardy
>> I could not beat Watson.
>>
>
> Humans are still better at pattern matching than machines and you would
> need a very good pattern matcher to understand the message as posted.

As demonstrated with passwords, humans aren't very good at coming up
with new ways of obfuscation, so if a dedicated spammer has come across
this construct before, they might already have a parser to snaffle the
contents automatically.

Just a thought.
 
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