James> Maybe the spammers will now recognise and harvest "a at b.org" ?
Myself and Niall talked about this off list (slightly off topic).
When I quoted niall before, I included his email address. pipermail converts '@' to ' at ' in the online archives, but there is also a gzipped text file of the archives where the conversion doesn't take place. So there's three possibilities for why Niall it getting spam:
1/ The spambots have cracked the ' at ' conversion. (Alan Cox says they all have) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-December/msg00018.html
2/ The spambots are downloading gzip files, unzipping them, and scanning them. Gzip mailing list files available from here: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/
3/ The spambots are subscribing to mailing lists and then looking at the subscibers list page. (fsfe-ie has the subscribers list set to private, but discussion@fsfeurope.org has it public.)
Nothing we can do about 1 or 3, but for 2, we should make sure not to include unarmoured email addresses in our mails. (I'll stop. I don't know if anyone else has been doing this.)
end of thread?