Dan,
The best practice is to advertise generic addresses, and don't subscribe
such addresses to anything. Then you know that harvested addresses will
likely be those on your site, and you can weight them higher, or fail on
a lower score, whichever. At least that's what I do. I also
I manage both our public sites and our mail server, so I've consistent direct evidence
of this
harvesting. The quick workaround is to use JavaScript to display the addresses. Most
bots won't
bother to figure it out.
Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator
VantageMed Operations (Kansas City)
We're not a very big company - about 35 employees.
I created an account for a new employee who wasn't due to start for 5 days
and added his e-mail address to the company directory on our web site. In
keeping with the insert expletive here corporate policy, the directory
listings are not
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Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Email addresses on a company webpage?
We're not a very big company - about 35 employees.
I created an account for a new employee who wasn't due to start
Generally speaking, what are the bots looking for? Only mailto:'s? Or are they smart
enough to use a regex search and find any text of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Jason Wolfe
Lead Developer
Netcomm, Inc.
http://www.netcomm.com
(859) 224-4124
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Generally speaking, what are the bots looking for? Only mailto:'s? Or are
they smart enough to use a regex search and find any text of the form
[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Sobig.F uses regexp to find addresses on cached web pages, so I would not
be surprised if tools spammers use to harvest addresses
: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Email addresses on a company webpage?
With all this talk of email addresses on web pages...
What is the best way to obfuscate them? HTML (how is this
done?)? Java
(how is this done?)?
Todd Holt
Xidix
If you're a small company with 5 to 15 people, then it's not as bad as a
company with hundreds of employees, or in the case of my client, thousands.
Against our advice, they placed their entire directory online for
convenience of their customers and it turned into a harvest festival for
spammers.
