Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
A spammer will get your e-mail address simply grepping for, say, \s+(\S+\@\S+\.\w{2,4})\s+ or something like that. On the other hand, when I display my Hungarian users a whois output full of English text, it reminds me of the middle ages. Spam should be fought another way, not creating mixed-up WHOIS data (which will not stop spammers anyway).Oh, please!I get enough spam without making it easier for the bastards to parse WHOIS.
- Cs.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:42:55 +0100, Csongor Fagyal wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've sucessfully written a Whois Parser which I maintain to this dayI say it's the 21st century, and you cannot get XML WHOIS output. That's
.... Thanks to all the idiot spammers who mine Whois for email
addresses I have found the following,
1) To make Whois Parsing very difficult Several registrars dynamically
change,
a) the Whois field prefixes b) the order that Whois sections appear
(tech first one time then reg the next time)
c) the actual formating of a fields contents (!)
2) Several registrars will temporarily block your IP after just a very
few Whois accesses.
So, from experiance, I can say writing a Whois parser these days is
*VERY* difficult!
just nonsense.
- Cs.
