Re: multi-file search-and-replace

I hope you are aware of the consequences of using 'real' email-addresses on Internet accessible webpages and I hope the pages you are changing are on an intranet.

The main consequence is that spammers can 'harvest' email-addresses from Internet accesible pages so within a few weeks the email accounts you listed on these pages are plagued with spam. A simple fix for that is to do a s/foo\@there.com/bar \(at\) here.us/ so the email-addres will be harder to recognize for a spam-email-harvester and still be recognizable by humans.

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Re^2: multi-file search-and-replace by aplonis (Pilgrim) on Jun 17, 2004 at 08:53 UTC
Yes, I am aware. Funny thing...on our family home page there are three emails which have been posted for more than two years. One of them, mine, gets lots of spam (which Thunderbird filters none too badly). The other two, my wife's and my son's, get hardly any. The difference? I actually send some email, they almost never do. I have to wonder if the emails are not being harvested for addresses en route over the internet. If I were a spammer, that's what I'd do...set me up a good-sized node on the web and just filter feed from email header packets as they passed by. You'd only ever get live ones that way. Always fresh. Bet someone's doing that, probably more than just a few someones. Probably not for themselves to use. Bet they sell them...	[reply]

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Re^2: multi-file search-and-replace
by aplonis (Pilgrim) on Jun 17, 2004 at 08:53 UTC

Yes, I am aware. Funny thing...on our family home page there are three emails which have been posted for more than two years. One of them, mine, gets lots of spam (which Thunderbird filters none too badly). The other two, my wife's and my son's, get hardly any.

The difference? I actually send some email, they almost never do. I have to wonder if the emails are not being harvested for addresses en route over the internet. If I were a spammer, that's what I'd do...set me up a good-sized node on the web and just filter feed from email header packets as they passed by. You'd only ever get live ones that way. Always fresh. Bet someone's doing that, probably more than just a few someones. Probably not for themselves to use. Bet they sell them...

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