If you read Groups messages on the web, email addresses are obfuscated to foil email harvesting 'bots. E.g.: The address as I see it in email is conprog at rochester.rr.com ( [email protected]). (Rick, can you correct me of that's not right?)
Since most Groups are world-readable, email addresses would be available to email-harvesting 'bots if they weren't obfuscated somehow. It's a constant struggle. On the one side, the forces of light don't want to lose the benefit of a clickable email link, on the other is some Russian with a few ten-thousand Python scripts scraping the web for valid email addresses wherever it can find them. A lot of websites try to obfuscate the addresses in ways that make it not cost effective for the 'bots to harvest them, while still making them clickable in browsers. Google's solution is simpler: just break the address. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:49 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > PLEASE SEND ALL RESPONSES AND QUESTIONS TO ME AT: > [email protected] > > Rick, this got truncated, right? Could you post the full address? > > Does everybody else have these problems with the Google Groups reader? > > Steve > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
