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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