A Fix to block GMail Spammers... PERIOD!

[DerVVulfman]

Well, as I stated, the use of the periods within eMail addresses have been a plague with anti-spam filters, this even reported within Google's own spam filter service. There is nothing I can do about spammers creating alternate eMails.

However, it does prevent those from using said period-using techniques (and it is working), and the eMail checks of spambots that have appeared showed they do use the same eMail addresses and tend to become blacklisted. Prior to the fix, the checks had to be run manually after removing the periods.

However, the technique in gMail's filter system is helpful.