[SGVLUG] How fast spam spiders work.

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 9/13/05, Greg Stark <gstark at electrorent.com> wrote:
> A Spider, I think would be looking for href tags to start with and process
> "mailto:" in all its variations of attributes and strings, just as a normal
> part of doing business?  Using decimal or octal codes is a nice idea.  It
> messes up someone who is visually interpreting, adding time to their
> extracting the information.  Automated processing on the other hand, as Tom
> points out just a matter of time before a rule is written to handle it.

It used to be the rule that they just looked for the mailto: but
people figured it out and stoped using mailto and so they started
looking for text at test.text. You can also use and image file with the
text in it without at mailto: if you do not need the easy of a single
click or a cut and paste.

Truefully when I originally started talking about the spiders I was
trying to point out to Tom that there is no reason to put
sgvlug at sgvlug.net on the website(Especially with a mailto:) sense the
list is member only. Just the link to the sign up page.