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Re: Spammer web harvesting tool countermeasures
From: Jon Stevens <jon () clearink com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 97 20:01:44 -0800
"Deepak Jain" <deepak () jain com> said the following at 10/30/97 6:56 PM:
And wouldn't we, in turn, see some kind of problems arise with legitimate search engines because of this?
If you downloaded it and looked at it, you would have noticed that it follows search engine guidelines by adding the appropriate <META> tag to the HTML as well as the fact, that you can also use the robots.txt file to block it. Of course this also breaks down if spammer robots actually follow the rules...but how many of those do you think that there are? ;-) -jon Jon (no h) S. Stevens Web Engineer j () clearink com Clear Ink and The Internet Weather Report <http://www.clearink.com/> | <http://www.internetweather.com/>
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- Re: Spammer web harvesting tool countermeasures Jon Stevens (Oct 30)
- Re: Spammer web harvesting tool countermeasures Deepak Jain (Oct 30)
- RE: Spammer web harvesting tool countermeasures Jamie Scheinblum (Oct 30)