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spamblock
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/spamblok/ , n. [poss. by analogy to sunblock] Text inserted in an email
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address to render it invalid and thus useless to spammers. For example, the
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address jrandom@hacker.org might be transformed to
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jrandom@NOSPAM.hacker.org. Adding spamblock to an address is often referred
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to as munging it (see munge ). This evasion tactic depends on the fact that
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most spammers collect names with some sort of address harvester on volumes
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too high to de-mung by hand, but individual humans reading an email message
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can readily spot and remove a spamblock in the From address. Note: This is
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not actually a very effective tactic, and may already be passing out of use
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in early 1999 after about two years of life. In both mail and news, it's
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essentially impossible to keep a smart address harvester from mining out the
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addresses in the message header and trace lines. Therefore the only people
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who can be protected are third parties mentioned by email address in the
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message not a common enough case to interest spammers.
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