On somewhat the same line of thinking does the use of the tinyurl.com
utility allow an unknown outsider an inside sneek peek of one's computer?
jh
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT - email obfuscator
> It also provides an unknown 3rd party with your email addresses -- the
> owner of the site that provides the obfuscation.
>
> Chris
>
> On 13 Nov 2008, at 01:29, Dr Who? wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>>> It might be of some interest to anyone who wants to help protect
>>> their
>>> published email addresses from being harvested by spambots.
>>
>> It nolonger has the protection it once did, it actually uses the same
>> methods that spammers themselves use in there email, and a lot
>> of the current harvesting software in use already converts this to
>> a stardard ASCII text email address for inclusion into the spammers
>> database.
>
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