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Re: Possible crawler-bot alert?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:06:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general (and 1 other group), Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
> I just wanted to ask if there's any evidence we've been visited by
> a spambot lately--suddenly there's been an enormous spike in spam
> (two or three a day, up from one every six months) to my .msu.edu
> account, which I *only* use to post here and have a forwarding set
> from. It's possible that it could be an odd mailing-list sale, but
> because my address hasn't been responsive it's much more likely
> that something is out there farming email addresses.
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> Is this possible, or are there measures in place to prevent this?
> Have others been noticing a problem, especially as concerns debt-
> reduction and cell-phone ads? I do recall Todd having said
> something about ways that LUGNET's setup prevents webcrawlers from
> farming here.
are there some measure in place? yes, some. Is it possible to block
out crawlers? not really. As long as anyone can point their browser
(or newsreader) and connect to LUGNET, without requiring a password,
the data there can be harvested. We can (and have) put in all sorts
of blocks, trying to weed out bots, but there is just no way of
knowing if a certain request is comeing from a user browsing the site
or from a bot.
My suggestion to you - and this goes to anywhere you post your email to
- use spam filters and spamblocks. It's a pain, but I fear there's no
other option in todays Internet.
Dan
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> (...) to (...) Dan, Question regarding this. I mostly post to LUGNET via e-mail. I just tried doing so using a spamblock in my reply-to header. This works fine, but my From: field still (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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