| Re: alternative to fwrite? [message #183023 is a reply to message #183017] |
Thu, 03 October 2013 17:51   |
bill
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Registered: October 2010
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On 2013-10-02 8:37 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:00:01 -0400, Twayne wrote:
>> On 2013-10-02 4:37 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
>>> On 10/2/2013 11:58 AM, Twayne wrote:
>>>> On 2013-10-02 10:01 AM, Evan Platt wrote:
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>> OK or some, dangerous for others as bots regularly probe & scan
>> newsgroups, mining for e-mails to scrape up.
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> Unless it got MORE popular than two years ago, that is not the case.
> Email addresses posted on websites, even as "userpart at example.com"
> started receiving spam in less than a week. Email addresses posted to
> newsgroups alone took an average of five weeks to start receiving spam,
> and confined to addresses posting to very popular alt.* groups. Big
> 8-only didn't get picked up at all until we shut down the experiment
> after three months.
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TWO years? Please check up on some current events in this area; a LOT
has changed, especially in the last two years. But not scraping
addresses; it's still very common.
One positive thing that has happened, is ISPs have become much
better at protecting their clients inboxes. Mine does a stellar job. But
the scraping continues unabated.
And once an address makes it to a CD, it's there for a good, long
time and the list will be sold, added to, sold again, ad-infinitum.
Regards,
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