| gabriel rosenkoetter on 18 Oct 2003 17:11:03 -0400 |
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:52:58PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:51:12PM -0400, Kevin Brosius wrote: > > Bummer. Your turn to post a link. > XXX Whoops. I obviously forgot to come back and fill that in before sending. There's nothing overtly labeled as Email::SpamTool in CPAN, obviously, but the basic tools to webscrape addresses are there, and minimal effort gets you the rest of the way. Email::Find does basic address scraping. Extending it to ignore HTML tags is trivial (say, with HTML::Parser), and extending it to convert things like _AT_ before processing even more so. I can't imagine anyone but a spammer having a real need for Email::Valid (to save on wasted effort of sending email that's going to bounce). Same goes for Email::Verp (though I guess legitimate mailing lists would need that too, to track when people subscribe from bouncing email addresses). Though I don't think it's how they were intended, GetWeb and MailBot could easily be used as a spam suite. I was actually recalling something specifically designed to filter email addresses out of garbage, but scanning the output of a i /mail/ CPAN, I don't see it now. It may well have been pointed out to me outside of CPAN. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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