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    From Titus G@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 1 16:42:11 2025
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    On 1/06/25 12:38, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    snip

    Your signature includes a standard encrypted email address to prevent harvesting by spammers. I don't know, but suspect even the very dumb
    "AI" harvester nowadays would easily decode it.

    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk

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  • From Peter Moylan@21:1/5 to Titus G on Sun Jun 1 15:37:37 2025
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    On 01/06/25 14:42, Titus G wrote:
    On 1/06/25 12:38, Richard Heathfield wrote: snip

    Your signature includes a standard encrypted email address to
    prevent harvesting by spammers. I don't know, but suspect even the
    very dumb "AI" harvester nowadays would easily decode it.

    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk

    Are address harvesters still trawling through newgroups? Given the
    amount of Usenet traffic these days, it would be hardly worth the
    effort. I no longer try to hide my e-mail address, because junk mailers harvested it decades ago.

    When I look at my server logs, I see little evidence of attempts to
    gather usernames. The pests are more focused on trying to guess
    passwords. They are particularly interested in collecting passwords for username "root". Since Richard's username is not "root", he's fairly safe.

    --
    Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
    Newcastle, NSW

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  • From Richard Heathfield@21:1/5 to Titus G on Sun Jun 1 06:40:30 2025
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    On 01/06/2025 05:42, Titus G wrote:
    On 1/06/25 12:38, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    snip

    Your signature includes a standard encrypted email address to prevent harvesting by spammers. I don't know, but suspect even the very dumb
    "AI" harvester nowadays would easily decode it.

    Apparently not. That's been part of my sigblock for nigh on 20
    years. If it causes problems I'll change it, but so far so good.

    --
    Richard Heathfield
    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
    "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
    Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to Titus G on Sun Jun 1 12:31:35 2025
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    Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 1/06/25 12:38, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    snip

    Your signature includes a standard encrypted email address to prevent harvesting by spammers. I don't know, but suspect even the very dumb
    "AI" harvester nowadays would easily decode it.

    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk

    Do grow up.
    The times that harvesters care about usenet addresses are long past,

    Jan

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to Lodder on Mon Jun 2 05:33:18 2025
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    On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 12:31:35 +0200, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
    Lodder) wrote:

    Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 1/06/25 12:38, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    snip

    Your signature includes a standard encrypted email address to prevent
    harvesting by spammers. I don't know, but suspect even the very dumb
    "AI" harvester nowadays would easily decode it.

    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk

    Do grow up.
    The times that harvesters care about usenet addresses are long past,

    Neaely all the email spam I get to see nowadays is ostensibly from
    other users of my own ISP, who are either phishing for my email
    password so they can send out spam in my name too, or sending me an
    account for something I've never bought, presumably hoping that I am a
    lowly creditors clerk in a large firm who will pay accounts without
    checking.

    The spam almost invariably requires one to click on something, and as
    my mail reader is set to plain text only (partly to avoid such
    spammers' tricks) I never seen the place where they want one to click.


    --
    Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
    Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
    Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
    E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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