Re: Solid facts to promote Ada

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Adrian Hoe" <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:3f98e741_1@news.tm.net.my...
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> > On 2003-10-23, Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com> 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. :)

So you are saying you don't want anyone to link to this paper? If so, it's
close to useless. We need information like this on Adaic. But of course, to
be useful, it has to be pointed at by search engines like Google and of
course the Ada-wide search engine on Adaic. And those use the exact same
techniques that spammers do.

Mail servers that send useless bounce messages (such as the many that
happened for the SWEN virus) are part of the problem. If you don't have to
accept mail from everywhere, just block the problem IPs at the firewall or
router. I can't do that (Ada-Comment and the like should be open to
everyone), but there are filtering techniques that do work and hardly ever
catch good mail. (Otherwise, I would be off the internet; I'm getting 500
spam a day, and it increases 50 every month.)

BTW, who's running the unfiltered mailing list that's letting all the spam
get posted to this newsgroup? If it doesn't stop, I'm going to have to leave
this list, because it is ridiculous that so much dangerous junk is showing
up here. I filter to prevent this kind of crap from getting to my desktops,
and it's extremely annoying to have it get sent in via the newsreader.
Either shut down the list or put a good spam filter on it!!

                     Randy.