On 2017 Apr 25 17:00:08, you wrote to Richard Menedetter:

 CS>>> I don't think Fidonet is big enough for anyone to bother to parse
 CS>>> out a few emails to spam.

 RM>> It is not needed that it is parsed out over fidonet. It is enough
 RM>> when somebody makes it available for download on the Internet.
 RM>> Spambots actively search the Internet for anything that looks like an
 RM>> email address.

 CS> I'm well aware of how the search robots work.  This suggested addition
 CS> is *voluntary*.  People who feel they might get a spam email, shouldnt
 CS> list an entry.

perhaps, since a human has to specifically look in the nodelist for these CEMs,
it would be best to specify an obfuscation format to be followed and converted
from?

eg: some/user!random/domain/tld

in the above, "." is replaced by "/" and "@" is replaced by "!"... the main
idea being to make it so different from an email address that harvesters simply
won't ever see it as an email address... heck, i get spam to some of my testing
email addresses that were never used anywhere other than one-off testing to one
other account... they are now used specifically as spambait if/when they are
used...

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