Go ahead guys.. use all the dirty [at] and _dot_ triccks you want, I'll collect all of them and mail em to every nigerian in my address book..
On a more serious note: there are better methods for mail harvesters. The biggest one for them is forwards. You know the one about pepsi to clean the toilet.. Every forward can contain anything from around 20 to 200 email addresses.. so if you ever forward mail's be rest assured, it'll land on their list them sooner or later.
Another method spammers utilize is joining mailing lists (the digest mode), and harvesting from there.
Yet another method (hypothetically, of course) is distributed harvestsing.. spyware sitting on thousands of PCs monitoring webpages for mail IDs.
Not to forget accounts compromised by keyloggers being looked into.. an average netter would have say 10 unique IDs in his addressbook (yahoo/gmail/msn harvesting is easily done using their respective chat protocols).
In short, to keep your ID out, dont create it really.
Even with a salt.. the search is just over a space of 2^32.. and thats fairly small.. a matter of few minutes on a fast computer. This could be drastically reduced
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Go ahead guys.. use all the dirty [at] and _dot_ triccks you want, I'll collect all of them and mail em to every nigerian in my address book..
On a more serious note: there are better methods for mail harvesters. The biggest one for them is forwards. You know the one about pepsi to clean the toilet.. Every forward can contain anything from around 20 to 200 email addresses.. so if you ever forward mail's be rest assured, it'll land on their list them sooner or later.
Another method spammers utilize is joining mailing lists (the digest mode), and harvesting from there.
Yet another method (hypothetically, of course) is distributed harvestsing.. spyware sitting on thousands of PCs monitoring webpages for mail IDs.
Not to forget accounts compromised by keyloggers being looked into.. an average netter would have say 10 unique IDs in his addressbook (yahoo/gmail/msn harvesting is easily done using their respective chat protocols).
In short, to keep your ID out, dont create it really.
Even with a salt.. the search is just over a space of 2^32 .. and thats fairly small.. a matter of few minutes on a fast computer. This could be drastically reduced