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Old October 1st 17, 06:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default Not Really Aviation Related, But...

My spam filter takes care of the junk and it's very convenient to simply
have the messages in my email.Â* As I said, I was just curious.Â* And it's
been raining for the past week (over 3 inches here in New Mexico!), so
there's not much else fun to do right now...

On 10/1/2017 11:26 AM, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 9:38:56 AM UTC-7, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
It's to keep "bots" from grabbing email addresses and then spamming them, bots usually ignore the "encryption", but humans can figure it out.
Headers from posts are also not usually visible to a bot.

Plenty of tech peeps here that can expand on it if you ask.

It's largely a silly waste of time, bots certainly scrape the headers straight off USENET without going though Google Groups. Bots can also reassemble the "encrypted" silliness. Of course what they scrap from headers might be fake or burner addresses... up to how paranoid and hard to contact you want to be.


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Dan, 5J