Richard Lamb and the Texas Parasol Plans ...and Sirius Aviation

Richard Riley wrote:
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:50:31 -0500, Jim Carriere
wrote:

:Robert Bonomi wrote:
: For a few months now, Google _has_ been mangling all addresses,
: WHEN READ ON GOOGLE.
:
id Google deliberated do that (to throw off spambots)? I'm impressed!

Yes they did. But it's even neater than that.


Sort of.

If you create a google account and sign in (and you can use a
Yahoomail or Gmail account for your return address, if you want) you
still see the mangled email addresses. But if you want to send the
author an email you can, you click on reply to author. The system
never shows you his cleartext address but opens a web/email window,
and sends your message.

So the spambots can't get the addresses, and if you want to send a
message to the author you can!

But not if the author munged his address himself, as many do.
Google does NOT direct bounces to the sender, (at least I never
got one) so youdon;t know if your email got through or not.

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FF