[thelist] Email address hiding question

Robert Gormley robert at pennyonthesidewalk.com
Fri Jul 1 10:28:53 CDT 2005


lustig at brandeis.edu wrote:

>
>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
>  
>
The general practice is 'spoof'.

Why would they risk making it easier for you to robots.txt / server side
block them?


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