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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
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In &lt;<A HREF="msg00202.html">33CFD425.167EB0E7#iname,com</A>&gt;, on 07/18/97 
   at 01:45 PM, Shawn Halpenny &lt;malachai#iname,com&gt; said:

&gt;clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:

&gt;&gt; Without the last rule "bubba#site,dom" would become "bubba&amp;site,com".
&gt;&gt; With the last rule it would become, "site,dom&amp;bubba".  The reason for
&gt;&gt; this approach as versus BrandonG's approach of nuking the entire
&gt;&gt; UserID section of the email address is that it remains fully human
&gt;&gt; readable and human usable as is, and no sematic content is lost.  Only
&gt;&gt; machine processing abilities are lost.  &lt;&lt;The choice of replacement
&gt;&gt; characters is not cast in stone.  I could also see doing a
&gt;&gt; "bubba(at)site,dom".&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; The address munging pattern would be posted on the web site.
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt;   &lt;&lt;Yes, it is still machine parsable.  I suspect the odds however of
&gt;&gt; a web-scanner unmunging and parsing the above forms and extracting
&gt;&gt; valid email addresses is proximate to zero.&gt;&gt;

&gt;If the details of the munging are publicly available (and the pretty
&gt;much have to be), a determined idiot could conjure something up
&gt;easily. I suppose a determined idiot could work around almost any
&gt;scheme, though.

That's pretty well true of any pattern I devise short of obliterating
the entire email address.  Given dedication and a half-functioning
neurone, it can be reversed.  My bet is that the (comparitively)
paltry membership of the list will not be a tempting enough target for
a web scanner.  Who is going to special case for merely a few score
addresses?

&gt; ...Side note:  would spelling out the '@' and the '.'
&gt;make it any less parsable?  

Possibly, but doubt its effectiveness.  

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<LI><strong><A NAME="00177" HREF="msg00177.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Making the list public?</A></strong>, 
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 18 Jul 1997, 11:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00197" HREF="msg00197.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Making the list public?</A></strong>, 
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 19 Jul 1997, 02:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00199" HREF="msg00199.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Making the list public?</A></strong>, 
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sat 19 Jul 1997, 02:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00202" HREF="msg00202.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Making the list public?</A></strong>, 
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Sat 19 Jul 1997, 03:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00203" HREF="msg00203.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Making the list public?</A></strong>, 
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 19 Jul 1997, 05:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00173" HREF="msg00173.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Socrates - A brief look at AI(?)</A></strong>, 
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 18 Jul 1997, 06:24 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00171" HREF="msg00171.html">Evil coders from beyond the grave</A></strong>, 
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Fri 18 Jul 1997, 03:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00180" HREF="msg00180.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Evil coders from beyond the grave</A></strong>, 
Orion Henry <a href="mailto:ohenry#sdcc10,ucsd.edu">ohenry#sdcc10,ucsd.edu</a>, Fri 18 Jul 1997, 13:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00194" HREF="msg00194.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Evil coders from beyond the grave</A></strong>, 
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sat 19 Jul 1997, 02:24 GMT
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