From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e87c7ceb455db17c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-24 01:55:56 PST Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:51:47 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030727 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Solid facts to promote Ada References: <3f973ff2_2@news.tm.net.my> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.185.240 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.185.240 Message-ID: <3f98e741_1@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1066985281 219.95.185.240 (24 Oct 2003 16:48:01 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!ash.uu.net!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1577 Date: 2003-10-24T16:51:47+08:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > On 2003-10-23, Adrian Hoe wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I've just made available my paper, "Software Development Reengineering - >>An Experience Report", on my web site "a d r i a n h o e . c o m" (sorry >>for the spaces, gotta avoid spammers :) > > > Actually, your web page is: http://www.adrianhoe.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ By giving the actual url like above, it opens up a big vulnerability for spammers. Today, spammers use a software so effectively to collect email addresses and urls (and email addresses from urls) automatically. That's why I put spaces in the url, hopefully, spam software is not intelligent enough to recognize it. :) > and there is no need to put spaces in a url. > -- Adrian Hoe m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m