a bogus email address within each repition of the loop. That will get em!!!
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Daniel Farmer
Producer / Coldfusion Developer
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>From: Pete Ruckelshaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Hiding an Email Address from harvesters
>Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:12:58 -0500
>
>How are they able to harvest email addresses from CFMAIL tags? I don't
>understand how this would even be possible if the page is coded properly?
>
>Anyway, if you want to hide the email address, set it as a variable in
>the application.cfm and then call the variable from the CFMAIL tag.
>
>Pete
>
>Les Mizzell wrote:
> > Regarding SPAM Email Harvester Bots...
> >
> > There's some really good _javascript_s out there to protect an email
> > address in a standard "MAILTO:" link, but the harverters are also
> > grabbing addresses from CFMAIL tags.
> >
> > Anybody got a good technique to "hide" the email addresses in "CFMAIL"
> > from the harvesters?
> >
> > By the way, I've got a page working now that uses _javascript_ by
> > D.K.Merriman to generate a ton of false email addresses, then record the
> > IP address and other information about the crawler and email it to me
> > so I can see what's hitting the page. The page then has links containing
> > random variable that point back to itself so the harvester will follow
> > the link back to the page and get MORE email addresses.
> >
> > I grabbed one last night:
> > address = 63.121.30.223
> > host = 63.121.30.223
> > agent = Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; FlipDog;
>http://www.whizbang.com/crawler)
> > page = /myEmailList.cfm
> >
> > It looped through the page close to 100 times, thusly grabbing several
> > thousand "dud" addresses....
> >
> > --
> > Les Mizzell
> > -------------------------
> > “Mihi placent, O Pincerna!
> > Virent ova! Viret perna!
> > Dapem posthac non arcebo.
> > Gratum tibi me praebebo.”
> >
>
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