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Re: Possible crawler-bot alert?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:04:40 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Andy Lynch wrote:
> 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 shows my normal address, and LUGNET is
> polite enough to display that fact, as shown here:
that is correct - since you didn't change your "from" field to use the
spamblock. What you need to do is create a new "posting setup" here:
http://news.lugnet.com/news/post/setup/
and put in your spamblock email address in the "From" area. Then, change
your mail client to send mail as if it's comeing from that spamblock
address. After the posting setup gets processed, you'll be able to post,
and the only address shown with be the spamblocked one.
> And probably this post too, as I am using the same method to post it.
> On the web page it is not a MailTo: tag, and that is nice, but my
> e-mail address is still shown on the page, and a (simple) regular
> expression search would reveal it. Would it be possible to obfuscate
> the display a bit in a way that is html friendly, of course, to make
> people work harder to harvest? Maybe a blank SPAN tag set between the
> @ and the domain and another between the domain and the extension or
> something like that. Not really a solution, but harvesters would at
> least have to recognize that they were there to weed them out.
While this (and other ways) are easy to do, they're very easy to
overcome, and probably not worth the effort. If you're worried about
spam, use a spamblock - that's the only (close to) safe way.
Dan
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> (...) is (...) change (...) post, (...) Oh, I see. I have actually changed my posting setup to include the block, but cannot send e-mail out using the block, as my mail server will not (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Possible crawler-bot alert?
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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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