[epub] Re: Bots WAS Re: faked eMail addresses

[Ravi Jayagopal <Ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

Sorry about that.

By "bot", I meant "robots" - or "spam robots"
- these are email-collecting software that are
written primarily to jump from site to site
following one link to another, and identify and
store anything that looks like an email address.

With an "@" symbol in the source.

And then, these emails get put on a CD and
are sold for a few dollars for a few million
email addresses.

I have successfully beaten spam to a MAJOR
extent on my web sites using a combination
of techniques that I use.

If my techniques didn't work, then
by now I should have been getting at least
200-300 emails per day.

But I got ONE spam mail in 1.5. years.

In the case of spam, prevention is the
only way out - because there seems to
be no cure on the e-Horizon.

At least there won't be one for a very
long time.

Regards,

Ravi
Founder & Software Architect
http://WebmasterInABox.net


At 01:36 PM 7/13/03 -0400, you wrote:
> Ravi. What is a "bot"?
> mike


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