Re: Anti-Email harvesting script

that isnt the site but I would like to have the correct url please.

Thanks,

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Brown" <jeremy(at)localnetamerica.com>
To: "Shull, Conrad" <cshull(at)shscares.org>
Cc: <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Anti-Email harvesting script


> I like the idea of sending it back to itself :-)
>
> There is also a site ( I believe it's  http://www.webpoison.com  - if it's
not
> let me know and I will look it up ) that has a program that will generate
> seemingly random email links for these types of browsers to follow.  Upon
> following one, it encounters yet another page of seemingly random links,
and it
> follows this one.  In this manner, the offending brower becomes entangled
in
> this program, all the while filling it's database full of useless
information.
>
> "Shull, Conrad" wrote:
>
> > Looking at our site's logs, I see several email harvesting browsers
listed.
> > Our sysadmin is not aware of any web server (NT) browser filters (he may
be
> > wrong).  It occurred to me that I COULD add ASP VBScript to the top of
each
> > of our pages (or at least those with email addresses in them) that
detects
> > the offending browsers (ExtractorPro is an example) and if detected
> > redirects to some Siberian elk mating site (no, that wouldn't be fair to
the
> > Siberian elk - better redirect to www.extractorpro.com).  Anybody have
any
> > thoughts on the wisdom or pitfalls of this strategy?
> >
> > - Conrad Shull
>
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>
>

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