Reply to: foiling address harvesting from web pages
Does anyone have any idea how intelligent addressing-harvesting bots are
these days? I'm considering a policy on publishing staff email addresses
on our web page. Even if we start putting in spamtrap addresses for SIMS,
I'd like to avoid putting real addresses up in usable form.
Are bots likely to reconstruct addresses listed as "somebody AT
mprinc.com"? How about addresses listed as just "somebody" with a note at the top
of the list to append "@mprinc.com" to all addresses? (Since the website is
www.mprinc.com, a bot wouldn't really have to be smart enough to read the
note--it could just guess that the domain is "mprinc.com".) What about
other forms of munging?
Speculation is welcome, but I'd really like to know if there are
definitely any harvesters out there which are reconstructing email addresses.
Would also like to know what others think, in general, about publishing
unmunged email addresses in publicly-viewable staff directories.
--Elliot Wilen
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