[SGVLUG] How fast spam spiders work.

[Greg Stark]

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.

The JavaScript solution seems more transparent to a Spider, especially with
other JavaScript's on the page.

Any other solutions?  I'm interested.
Greg 
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From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of Douglas Burton
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 10:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] How fast spam spiders work.

Tom Emerson wrote: 

	On Monday 12 September 2005 20:52, serross at ix.netcom.com wrote:
	  
		Sorry Tom, but what I am talking about is not scripted.
		    
	Though now I'm curious -- what method are you talking about that
obscures 
	things from spiders, yet reveals them "to a real person", and
doesn't use 
	some form of [java]script?  (and I'll ask in advance, "and how does
it 
	prevent a "spider" from deciphering an address?)

Indeed, do tell. I've never felt that the JavaScript method is an ideal
solution, but I considered it an improvement over the previous method I
used, which was to convert the link text into decimal codes. In this case,
you at yourdomain.com becomes:

you@yourdomai
n.com

Doug