[CLUE-Tech] cool kmail feature - demangling email addys

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Tue Jul 20 22:47:30 MDT 2004


Jeff Cann wrote:

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> Suppose I have the anti-spam email address:  me at example dot com listed on a 
> web site.  Since many web masters don't post mailto: links any more, you 
> cannot click on this address to send an email to me.
> 
> If you copy and past the 'me at example dot com' into the To:, CC:, BCC: 
> fields in a Kmail message, it will translate it into me at example.com
> 
> It also knows how to translate other variations like me at example.com
> 
> I ran across it by accident and I was pleasantly surprised.
> 
> Jeff

Further proof that doing that obfuscation is useless.  Spammers have and 
know how to use Perl.  ;-)

Nate



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