Address munging is the practice of disguising, or munge munging , an e mail address to prevent it being automatically collected and used as a target for people and organizations who send e mail spam unsolicited bulk e mail . Address munging is intended to disguise an e mail address in a way that prevents computer software seeing the real address, or even any address at all, but still allows a human reader to reconstruct the original and contact the author an email address such as, nowiki no one example.com nowiki , becomes no one at example dot com , for instance. I will feel incredibly stupid if I find that it s not wikified in the first place, but it s simply my FF extension linkification that is turning it into a mailto link. Any e mail address posted in public is likely to be automatically collected by computer software used by bulk emailers a process known as e mail address harvesting and addresses posted on webpage s, Usenet or chat rooms are particularly vulnerable to this. ref http ... users. ref http www.interhack.net pubs munging harmful Address Munging Considered Harmful , Matt Curtin ref The use of address munging on Usenet is contrary to the recommendations of RFC 1036 governing ... that would have been deterred by address munging may instead end up wasting time on long letters ... exactly the same deterrent problems as address munging itself. Alternatives As an alternative to address munging, there are several transparent techniques that allow people to post a valid e mail address ... of XML and HTML character entity references . ref http perso.crans.org raffo aem Address munging ... http www.addressmunger.com contact form generator PHP contact form generator ref An example of munging ... 2 See also Internet bot Netiquette External links http www.faqs.org faqs net abuse faq munging address Address Munging Frequently Asked Questions http www.2kevin.net munging.html Newsgroup address munging ... Free email address encrypter using client side java script. spamming DEFAULTSORT Address Munging Category ... more details
Mung is computer jargon for to make repeated changes which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional, irreversible destruction of large portions of the original item. It was coined in 1958 in the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1960 the backronym Mash Until No Good was created to describe Mung, and a while after it was revised to Mung Until No Good , making it one of the first recursive acronym s. It lived on as a recursive command in the editing language Text Editor and Corrector TECO . Munging implies destruction to make large scale and irrevocable changes to a file and to destroy it. Hence in the early text adventure game Zork , also known as Dungeon, the user could mung an object and thereby destroy it making it impossible to finish the game if the object was an important item . Munging may also describe the constructive operation of tying together systems and interfaces that were not specifically designed to interoperate often using the Perl programming language . Munging can also describe the processing or filtering of raw data into another form. ref cite web url http books.perl.org book 95 title Perl Books Book Data Munging with Perl work Perl.org accessdate December 30, 2010 ref See also Munge &ndash to create a strong, secure password through character substitution. Jargon File &ndash a glossary of hacker slang. References Reflist Example Usage Sharron munged the timetable. External links wiktionarypar mung munge http catb.org jargon html M mung.html Jargon File entry http wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk foldoc foldoc.cgi?mung Mung and http wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk foldoc foldoc.cgi?munge munge at FOLDOC http www.interhack.net pubs munging harmful Email address munging is considered harmful Category Information technology management Category Internet terminology de Munging ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox Software name Sprog latest release version 0.14 latest release date July 27, 2005 operating system Cross platform genre Extract transform load ETL license GPL , Artistic License website http sprog.sourceforge.net Sprog is graphical tool to build Perl programs by plugging parts called gears in Sprog terminology together. Given the available gears are mostly for reading and processing data, this program can probably be classified as an Extract transform load ETL Extract Transform Load tool. External links http sprog.sourceforge.net Sprog web site http www.perl.com pub a 2005 06 23 sprog.html Data Munging with Sprog DEFAULTSORT Sprog Software Category ETL tools Category Perl software business software stub ... more details
The term list poisoning as related to electronic mail e mail , refers to poisoning a mailing list with invalid e mail addresses. Industry uses Once a mailing list has been poisoned with a number of invalid e mail addresses, the resources required to send a message to this list has increased, even though the number of valid recipients has not. If one can poison a spammer s mailing list, one can force the spammer to exhaust more resources to send e mail, in theory costing the spammer money and time. Poisoning spammer s mailing lists is usually done by blacklists submitting fake information to email submit style offers, or by posting invalid email addresses in a Usenet forum or on a web page where spammers are believed to harvest email addresses for their mailing lists. Vulnerabilities Syntactically invalid email addresses used to poison a mailing list could be easily filtered out by the spammers, while using email addresses that are syntactically correct could cause problems for the mail server responsible for the email address. Implementations of spam poisoning systems can be avoided, if spammers learn of their location e. g., they could automatically filter out any address containing spampoison.com . Spammers often steal resources so that the efficiency of a mailing places little financial burden on the spammer. Implementations List poisoning http www.monkeys.com wpoison code written in Perl . List poisoning http www.webmasterworld.com forum88 3104.htm code written in PHP . Simple list poisoning http zzzy.freeshell.org code written in BASH shell script and a http zzzy.freeshell.org guestbook working example . An http www.spampoison.com example of list poisoning using a shared CGI at a public URL Implemented on 1,470,000 sites . Another http www.spamhelp.org harvesterkiller example of list poisoning that throws the harvester in an endless loop of dynamically generated email addresses. See also Anti spam techniques e mail Address munging Botnet E mail address harvesti ... more details
infobox VG screenshot Image BFBuilder.jpg 200px caption Star Wars Battlefront BFBuilder developer LucasArts publisher Pandemic Studios released 2004 Original Battlefront tools br 2006 Battlefront II tools DO NOT POST INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL MODS UNLESS THEY ARE NOTABLE MODS BFBuilder is a map editor released by Pandemic Studios for Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Battlefront II . Included with the map editor are various assets, including sides and shipped maps, as well as the source files for the downloadable Tatooine Jabba The Hutt Jabba s Palace . Sound effects and music used to make the two Star Wars Battlefront games were not included because of copyright issues ref BFBuilder ReadMe ref , although it is possible to import original music and sound effects into the game. Map editing is done through an application called Zero Editor , which is used to mold the landscapes, place objects, command posts and vehicle spawn points. Additional scripting is done through LUA files for maps, and ODF Object Definition Files files for objects. Levels are finalized by a process called munging not to be confused with Munge , which compiles assets and maps into files recognised by the game, before compiling those files into LVL files which the game can read. Although the two engines are subtly different, assets can be imported from the first into the second, and vice versa. References references See also Star Wars Battlefront Star Wars Battlefront II Category Star Wars video games Category Video game level editors videogame software stub ... more details
Multiple issues weasel March 2009 refimprove January 2011 A spambot is an automated computer program designed to assist in the sending of Spam electronic spam . Spambots usually create fake accounts and send spam using them, although it would be obvious that a spambot is sending it. Some spambots, however, can crack passwords and send spam using other people s accounts. E mail spambots Citations missing section date March 2011 main E mail address harvesting E mail spambots harvest e mail addresses from material found on the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e mail, also known as e mail spam spam . Such spambots are web crawler s that can gather e mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special interest group SIG postings, and chat room conversations. Because e mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write. A number of programs and approaches have been devised to foil spambots. One such technique is address munging , in which an e mail address is deliberately modified so that a human reader and or human controlled Web browser can interpret it but spambots cannot. This has led to the evolution of more sophisticated spambots that are able to recover e mail addresses from character strings that appear to be munged, or instead can render the text into a web browser and then Screen scraping scrape it for e mail addresses. address munging Alternatives Alternative transparent techniques include displaying all or part of the e mail address on a webpage as an image, a text logo shrunken to normal size using inline CSS , or as text with the order of characters jumbled, placed into readable order at display time using CSS. Forum spambots Citations missing section date March 2011 Main forum spam Forum spambots surf the web, looking for guestbooks , wiki s, blog s, Internet forum forums and other types of Form web web forms which it can then use to submit bogus content. These often use optical character recognition OCR tech ... more details
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Other persons David Cross Infobox person name Dave Cross birth date birth date and age 1962 09 07 df yes image Dave Cross at UKUUG.jpg known for Perl religion Atheism Atheist nationality British occupation Author , programmer website http dave.org.uk http dave.org.uk Dave Cross is a British technical author, known in the Perl community for his work with Perl Mongers . Technical author In 2001 Manning Press published Dave Cross s first book Data Munging With Perl . Dave followed this up in 2003 by co authoring with Andy Wardley and Darren Chamberlain http oreilly.com catalog 9780596004767 Perl Template Toolkit , published by O Reilly Associates . Work in the Perl community Dave Cross founded London Perl Mongers, the first Perl user group outside North America. Since then Dave Cross has become a regular speaker at Perl conferences ref http conferences.yapceurope.org ye2008 user 259 Participant information Dave Cross , YAPC Europe 2008 ref ref http conferences.mongueurs.net ye2003 user 259 Participant information Dave Cross , YAPC Europe 2003 ref ref http conferences.mongueurs.net bpw2007 user 259 Participant information Dave Cross , Belgian Perl Workshop 2007 ref ref http conferences.yapceurope.org lpw2008 user 259 Participant information Dave Cross , London Perl Workshop 2008 ref ref http www.yapceurope.org 2001 bio.html Speaker biographies , YAPC Europe 2001 ref and other open source conferences such as UKUUG ref http spring2008.ukuug.org talk abstracts.html Talk abstracts , UKUUG Spring 2008 ref and FOSDEM. ref http archive.fosdem.org 2004 index interviews interviews cross.html Dave Cross an interview , FOSDEM , 26 January 2004 ref In 2004 Dave Cross was presented with the O Reilly White Camel award for his work in the Perl community. ref http www.perl.org advocacy white camel 2004.html White Camel Awards 2004 Recipients , www.perl.org ref Personal In addition to his technical writings Dave Cross currently maintains a personal blog on which he covers issues such as ... more details
notability Web date September 2009 one source date September 2009 Really Simple Discovery RSD is an XML format and a publishing convention for making services exposed by blog , or other web software, discoverable by client software. It is a way to reduce the information required to set up editing blogging software to three well known elements Username Password Homepage Uniform Resource Locator URL Any other critical settings should either be defined in the RSD file related to the blog, or discoverable using the information provided. History RSD was authored by Daniel Berlinger in the http tales.phrasewise.com rfc rsd Really Simple Discoverability 1.0 specification. Format To make use of RSD, the owner of a site places a link tag in the head section of the homepage which indicates the location of the RSD file. An example of what MediaWiki uses is source lang xml link rel EditURI type application rsd xml href http en.wikipedia.org w api.php?action rsd source If this tag is missing or the file is not found, clients should look in the default location which is a file named rsd.xml in the webroot. ref name webroot cite web url http tales.phrasewise.com rfc rsd ODoxNTozNiBBTQdbdb title RFC Really Simple Discoverability 1.0 date 2007 10 16 ref For example nowiki http example.com rsd.xml nowiki Contents Here is a sample RSD file, from http tales.phrasewise.com rfc rsd Really Simple Discoverability 1.0 source lang xml ?xml version 1.0 ? rsd version 1.0 xmlns http archipelago.phrasewise.com rsd service engineName Blog Munging CMS engineName engineLink http www.blogmunging.com engineLink homePageLink http www.userdomain.com homePageLink apis api name MetaWeblog preferred true apiLink http example.com xml rpc url blogID 123abc api name Blogger preferred false apiLink http example.com xml rpc url blogID 123abc api name MetaWiki preferred false apiLink http example.com some other url blogID 123abc api name Antville preferred false apiLink http example.com yet another url blogID 1 ... more details
by divulgence, it cannot likely be regained. Address munging Main Address munging Posting anonymously .... For instance, TT joe example.com TT might post as TT joeNOS PAM.invalid.example.com TT . Address munging ... munging.html Newsgroup munging guide ref Other ways use address munging Alternatives transparent address munging to avoid this by allowing users to see the actual address but obfuscate it from ... more details
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