* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-28 16:30]: > This is really your best bet, as a popular module or method to > do this would most certainly already be known by those > harvesters and have extracting code for them.
In theory. In practice, even just entity-encoded email addresses seem to be invisible to the majority of spiders, even today. The fact is, there is so much web with entirely unprotected mail addresses that it doesn’t matter whether some of them are hidden. The spammers just let their spiders run, and at the end of the day they don’t even know or care how many veiled addresses the crawler missed, because they get their quota of harvested addresses filled either way. Between the choice of spidering more pages and scanning pages more thoroughly, it doesn’t make economic sense to pick the latter. If you run a _really_ huge community site, eg. Facebook, and you have very high quality addresses (which depends on whether the address is real and active and will reach a human) on your records, then it might be worthwhile for the scoundrel to target you specifically, because such address lists sell at a higher margin. Otherwise making it up in volume is a more successful strategy. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
