In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28 Jan, you wrote:
[Snip] > > to put this in perspective.. > > > > The script itself is the protected side of a barrier, which is there to > > stop robots crossing it. The liklihood of the script being reached by a > > robot is very low indeed. It's there more for fun for human visitors! > That's not the reason you give at <http://www.4qd.org/Contact/Blank.html> > - there it says the script is specifically for robots who've followed the > link of your Contact button, but not processed the form properly, thereby > ending up at that page, containing a link to the email address generating > script. Also, you have a link to the script from your spam philosophy > page, which any robot could come across in a normal crawl. > And anyway, if it were true that a robot is probably not going to come > across the script, why have it at all? As a learning excercise? It's all very well being negative about such scripts. But until yu have tried them how do you know what is ideal? I believe SugarPlum is far better! > > My Perl is not up to seeing how the program can generate the domains > > rof and oga - it picks from a wrod list, where these two don't occur. > Well, I managed to find the source for this script on the internet, but > can no longer - however, from what I remember it doesn't just pick from a > word list, it adds random letters, which could (as it does) lead to > generating an existing domain. > ATB, > Matthew -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Torrens 4QD manufacture speed controllers for battery electric motors. www sites http://www.4QD.co.uk http://www.4QDtec.com http://www.4QD.org All email addresses are copyright. Resale or use on any lists is expressly forbidden ---------- We use a RISC PC 32 bit RISC computer ----------------
