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Re: SWIP update intervals (was: Re: Getting an AS and /18)

  • From: Adam McKenna
  • Date: Tue Jul 03 17:27:57 2001 
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:21:12PM -0400, Lapinski, Michael (CRD) wrote:
> Do you honestly think that spammers cant write a 
> little bit more code that will parse out the URL 
> and then parse the email addresses out of web page?

Do you honestly think that most spammers are using custom tools to extract
e-mail addresses from web pages?  (There are winblows GUI tools designed
explicitly for this purpose -- you can download them from tucows.)

> It would probably help them because they'd have an 
> up-to-date list of people to spam.

Most places already have a contact list published on the web.

There are also ways of "hiding" e-mail addresses in web forms to make them 
harder for spammers' tools to parse, i.e., adam [at] flounder.net, etc.

--Adam