update the feature plan!

[Josef Spillner]

Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2009 01:01:02 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:
> of course. do you think that address harvesting bots subscribe to lists
> and wait for addresses to trickle in when they can get so many
> addresses by simply recursing over a few web pages within seconds? to me
> this seems a bit uneconomical.

I have the suspicion (although no proof) that some of today's bots do 
subscribe to mailing lists. There were some spam mails sent to moderated lists 
including freedesktop.org with subscription just minutes before. It would be 
rather uneconomical to do this by hand instead of just www-mechanising (Perl 
slang) something within two hours. My fears that this phenomenon would become 
more widespread have so far been unfounded, though.

However, given that most of the suggestions in this thread were totally 
useless either and can easily be circumvented with using khtml's comfortable 
DOM representation of any entity scrambling and ECMAscript workarounds, I 
suggest moving this discussion to a KDE infrastructure list and coming up with 
a real solution (e.g. user directory) or not discussing it further. Spam is 
annoying, wrong solutions against spam are even more annoying.

Josef