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Thank you. I would welcome any suggestions you might have. If you'll contact me at john.sambrook@protonmail.com I'll send you the two clips. I don't see how to

by jes 7y ago

Thank you. I would welcome any suggestions you might have. If you'll contact me at john.sambrook@protonmail.com I'll send you the two clips. I don't see how to find your email and I'm reluctant to ask you to disclose it publicly.

wizzwizz4 7y ago
Might want to obfuscate that address a little – perhaps replace the @foo.bar with "on ProtonMail's dotcom domain" or something, if it's worth it to stay off unsophisticated scraper lists.
- dylan604 7y ago
  Is this worth the trouble? I'm seriously asking. Seems like a ripe arena for a cat&mouse game similar to adblockers. The script kiddies writing email scraping tools surely have regex searching for "[at|@] * dotcom" type of concepts. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I pretty much assume that any email address is "compromised" (as in no longer spam free not pwnd) as soon as it is created. It may not be that bad, but I honestly believe the first time the email address is used as an ID then it is.
  - lunchables 7y ago
    >Maybe I'm too cynical, but I pretty much assume that any email address is "compromised" (as in no longer spam free not pwnd) as soon as it is created. It's not binary, as in, either "compromised" or not. There are lots of different spammers using different methods. Posting your email address on a public website will dramatically increase the amount of spam you get.
    - arcticbull 7y ago
      It’s often about being the second easiest option, not the hardest.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  Over several years' use of Protonmail and multiple instances of my address being available unobfuscated, spam to my inbox has remained astonishingly rare.
- sdinsn 7y ago
  I post my protonmail publicly and I haven't gotten spam for a year or so.
- mike_d 7y ago
  Spam doesn't come from web scraping anymore. It is all hacked databases, contact scraping from mobile apps, and harvested victim inboxes. If you put an address on an "About Us" page or something you might get some business related spam now that WHOIS data mining is dead, but regular 'ol users you want to target haven't posted their email addresses in HTML for 10+ years now.
- positr0n 7y ago
  I don't know how good protonmail's spam filtering is, but I've had my unobfuscated gmail address in my HN profile for years and I've never seen any spam (unless you count the occasional recruiter email).

by jes 7y ago

wizzwizz4 7y ago

Might want to obfuscate that address a little – perhaps replace the @foo.bar with "on ProtonMail's dotcom domain" or something, if it's worth it to stay off unsophisticated scraper lists.

dylan604 7y ago
Is this worth the trouble? I'm seriously asking. Seems like a ripe arena for a cat&mouse game similar to adblockers. The script kiddies writing email scraping tools surely have regex searching for "[at|@] * dotcom" type of concepts. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I pretty much assume that any email address is "compromised" (as in no longer spam free not pwnd) as soon as it is created. It may not be that bad, but I honestly believe the first time the email address is used as an ID then it is.
- lunchables 7y ago
  >Maybe I'm too cynical, but I pretty much assume that any email address is "compromised" (as in no longer spam free not pwnd) as soon as it is created. It's not binary, as in, either "compromised" or not. There are lots of different spammers using different methods. Posting your email address on a public website will dramatically increase the amount of spam you get.
  - arcticbull 7y ago
    It’s often about being the second easiest option, not the hardest.
dredmorbius 7y ago
Over several years' use of Protonmail and multiple instances of my address being available unobfuscated, spam to my inbox has remained astonishingly rare.
sdinsn 7y ago
I post my protonmail publicly and I haven't gotten spam for a year or so.
mike_d 7y ago
Spam doesn't come from web scraping anymore. It is all hacked databases, contact scraping from mobile apps, and harvested victim inboxes. If you put an address on an "About Us" page or something you might get some business related spam now that WHOIS data mining is dead, but regular 'ol users you want to target haven't posted their email addresses in HTML for 10+ years now.
positr0n 7y ago
I don't know how good protonmail's spam filtering is, but I've had my unobfuscated gmail address in my HN profile for years and I've never seen any spam (unless you count the occasional recruiter email).