13 Nov
2004
13 Nov
'04
00:09
On Saturday 13 November 2004 00:58, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Interesting. I hope you trust them to handle your email address, 'cause that's what I used to test it.
Anyone who posts to this list with their real address will have it in dozens of spam databases already, so 'trusting' one more is a little moot, no?
Nonetheless, all the bot needs is an embedded JavaScript interpreter to thwart that scheme. It's still not as robust as something optical.
Somehing as simple as inserting a nonsense word in the address and giving instructions to remove it to get the real address will more than likely be enough to beat any bot. I find it difficult to believe that spammers would be sophisticated enough to write web crawlers with advanced parsers