perhaps this one has.
The only reason it worked at all, or as long as it did, was because
spam-bots are so stupid. but they are only as stupid as they can be.
Since you're still using a mailto: tag even the dumbest bot would know
there's an email address in there someplace. When enough of them come
in formatted like this even the dumbest spammer will attempt to decode
them - especially since an email address that's protected is an email
address that's used. ;^)
It could have also been picked up by a manual "scan". Many companies
sic interns or cheap labor on relevant sites to collect content
information in a more orderly manner than random collection. This is
why, as a one man tech company, I'm constantly getting mail saying "We
heard you may be looking for qualified technical support staff!".
Obviously they 1) know I'm a tech company and 2) know nothing at all
about me beyond that.
Jim Davis
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:37 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Settle an argument for me
I've been using a UDF called "emailAntiSpam", which replaces an email
address in the source code with extended characters which supposedly
can't
be crawled and picked up by spambots.
So my address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] would look like:
<a
href=""> 112;
earlywhitesm&
#105
;le.com" target="_blank">Notify the
Webmaster</a>
My problem, my client thinks they are still being picked up and used for
spam - I also have a robots.txt file set to disallow bot crawling.
I've had both these in place since day one, when the site was posted
about 3
months ago.
Does it actually work?
Thanks, Mark
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