[thelist] Email address hiding question

lustig at brandeis.edu lustig at brandeis.edu
Fri Jul 1 10:20:01 CDT 2005


> I am sure that spammer _do_ know how to simulate a real browser. I
> would be very surprised if anything related to user agent is a good
> counter measure. Heck, even offline browsers have a "simulate IE"
> option :-)

Of course they could spoof their user-agent, but my question is, what is the
general practice among spammers? Do they spoof their user-agent, or do they
send the user agent "Spambot/1.2"? (and if they do spoof a popular browser,
how does that affect market share statistics?)

Jason


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