RE: Email grabbers

by Ilya Dubinsky <ilya788(at)inter.net.il>

 Date:  Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:05:45 +0200
 To:  "Shull,
Conrad" <cshull(at)shscares.org>
 Cc:  "'hwg-languages(at)hwg.org'" <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
 In-Reply-To:  ntmail1
  todo: View Thread, Original
Try this link
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/active/html/index.html

>A while back I hit upon the idea of using ASP/VBScript (just my preference)
>to redirect known email grabbing spiders to dummy, dead-end sites (or better
>yet, to the "contact us" webpage of the companies that market the email
>grabbing programs).  Does anyone know where to find a relatively complete
>list of these spiders (user agents) ?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cyanide _7 [mailto:leo7278(at)hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 4:54 AM
> > To: hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
> > Subject: Email grabbers
> >
> >
> > I was just thinking as i deleted about 30 unsolicited emails
> > form the last
> > few hours and perusing my referer log at user_agents. maybe
> > displaying my
> > email on my page is probably not such a good idea anymore. my
> > question is do
> > web strippers and email grabbers search through the source
> > code or the
> > rendered HTML? in other words, is the following code safe from them?
> >
> > <a
> > href="mailto:leo7278&#64;hotmail&#46;com">leo7278&#64;hotmail&
> > #46;com</a>
> >
> > TIA - Cyanide_7
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				Yours, Ilya.

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