SWIP update intervals (was: Re: Getting an AS and /18)
Adam McKenna
adam at flounder.net
Tue Jul 3 21:22:25 UTC 2001
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:21:12PM -0400, Lapinski, Michael (CRD) wrote:
> Do you honestly think that spammers cant write a
> little bit more code that will parse out the URL
> and then parse the email addresses out of web page?
Do you honestly think that most spammers are using custom tools to extract
e-mail addresses from web pages? (There are winblows GUI tools designed
explicitly for this purpose -- you can download them from tucows.)
> It would probably help them because they'd have an
> up-to-date list of people to spam.
Most places already have a contact list published on the web.
There are also ways of "hiding" e-mail addresses in web forms to make them
harder for spammers' tools to parse, i.e., adam [at] flounder.net, etc.
--Adam
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