Re: [NTLK] Did anyone else get this?

From: Glen Warner (gdwarner_at_mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 20:31:01 EDT


Brian <bmcewen_at_comcast.net> wrote:

(*snip*)

> But it is true that while the archives at www.newtontalk.net have
the email
> addresses munged to prevent bulk robot harvesting, the searchable
archives
> do not. So sometime when some spammer runs a robot down that, it
could be
> messy. As long as it requires a search keyword to be entered to
display
> any messages that should help defeat some harvesting 'bots.

I guess this is more of a question for Victor, but wouldn't a 'bot be
defeated by adding the meta tag "no bots" to the header of the
message? ... or adding appropriate headers via JavaScript's 'docwrite'
command ...?

--gdw

> Brian

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