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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <bcsdob-odf2.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 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.
  
Well, it took me just a couple of minutes to come up with a way to parse
that particular example.  Of course the "s were a big help.  :-)

bill

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