Anti-Email harvesting script

by "Shull, Conrad" <cshull(at)shscares.org>

 Date:  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:37:09 -0400
 To:  "'hwg-languages(at)hwg.org'" <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
  todo: View Thread, Original
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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