Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 35622
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2005/1/9-10 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:35622 Activity:nil
1/9     I've noticed that quite a few people will have an email address on
        their resume that says something like
        "firstname<dot>lastname<at>hostname<dot>com".  Is there really any
        point to this?  Are there actually spam programs downloading people's
        resumes in .pdf and .doc format, extracting the email address and
        adding it to spam lists?  Does anyone have any actual evidence that
        this threat is real?  It seems to me that if it is a real threat,
        just putting in a bitmap of your real email address without the
        stupid <dot> and <at> crap would do the same thing in a less annoying
        way.
        \_ Yes, the "threat" is real.  Spammers troll through newsgroups,
           webpages, etc. to gather possible addresses.  And how would you
           suggest putting a bitmap into the From field of a newsgroup
           posting?  Also, many of the later viruses scan all files on the
           infected computer for well-formed email addresses and propogate
           itself with those addresses as a forged from.  There is some
           speculation (and it seems well founded) that these were released
           in the wild as yet another way to skim valid email addresses off
           the net.
           \_ Thank you.  That is useful.  I can see how the <at> stuff would
              be useful for usenet, but I meant that for a resume you could
              embed a bitmap of your email address if it was in .pdf format
              with no loss of visual quality.
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