Good grief, quite an attribution line you've got there! <-;
> Yay! Thank you! Will I be able to put the string at random locations
> too? That would help in case the spammers ever get smart (yeah, right!)
You could set this up indirectly.... for example, you could use the
new random string configuration to define a bunch of complete email
addresses something like this:
pattern="!/a@b.ICK.com/a@EEK.b.com/a@b.com.OOK"
(that defines the "!" character to be replaced randomly by the strings
seperated by the "/" character -- in this case three of them, but as
many as you want (the max line length is 1024 characters -- hopefully
that doesn't cramp anyone's style).
(That reminds me, i should have documented a secret switch...
"yarf /debug-yarf" on command line will read the config file
and dump back out to make sure it is being read properly).
Anyhow, back to our example! Then where you define the email address
for newsgroups, for example, you'd just put..
"^Newsgroups: "::"!"
And that's that! The "!" will be substituted with a random string. I
hadn't thought of using Yarf this way when i made it, but it should
work that way nevertheless! Theoretically, it should work.
Or i guess with the above example since the a@ is always the same it
could be:
pattern="!/b.ICK.com/EEK.b.com/b.com.OOK"
"^Newsgroups: "::"a@!"
I don't quite understand the previous post to the list saying how
bad ID parts of the email address (ie. left of the @) will cause
extra work for ISP's... i doubt any ISP pays much attention to
messages bouncing off of them. But i could be wrong!
> Hey, I'm willing to do anything to annoy the damn spammers! =-)
Ah glorious dream! Unfortunately it's probably unlikely to happen and
the best us poor innocent folk can hope for is to be left alone by
them... probably they do a lookup on domains to filter out bad ones.
> When will that be? <Drooling>
yesterday. <-;
> version of Yarf still an OS/2/DOS program?
Yes, i try to be as compassionate as possible on unfortunate misguided
microsoft enslaved people -- i figure they have enough problems
already. (-: How's THAT for a disgustingly condescending attitude!
heheh. Just kidding, of course.
Well, anyhow... happy yarfing...
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