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Antony

2004-06-13, 3:58 pm

Hi,

Does anybody know where I could get an email spider script - but that
doesn't return the email addresses, but instead returns which pages they are
on? I was thinking of offering a site where people can assess whether their
websites could be spidered by spammers - and help them to reduce the
chances.

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thanks

Antony
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d0x

2004-06-13, 3:58 pm

umm.. not sure exactly what you mean. but i think your look for something
that does the following?

crawls through a persons web page to find email addresses (the same way a
spammer might do so).
then the script returns to you what pages contain vulnerable email
addresses?


On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:43:13 +0100, Antony wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know where I could get an email spider script - but that
> doesn't return the email addresses, but instead returns which pages they
> are on? I was thinking of offering a site where people can assess whether
> their websites could be spidered by spammers - and help them to reduce the
> chances.


Antony

2004-06-13, 8:57 pm

most definitely. I am not after an email spider - but exactly as you say. So
any ideas/thoughts/scripts would be .

Thanks

Antony

"d0x" <dan@no.spam> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.06.13.17.01.55.475481@no.spam...
> umm.. not sure exactly what you mean. but i think your look for something
> that does the following?
>
> crawls through a persons web page to find email addresses (the same way a
> spammer might do so).
> then the script returns to you what pages contain vulnerable email
> addresses?
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:43:13 +0100, Antony wrote:
>
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John Bokma

2004-06-14, 9:06 am

Antony wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know where I could get an email spider script - but that
> doesn't return the email addresses, but instead returns which pages they are
> on? I was thinking of offering a site where people can assess whether their
> websites could be spidered by spammers - and help them to reduce the
> chances.


That implies that you must know what spammers *do*. I can write such a
script (for a fee) but then I write what I can do. It seems that some
techniques still stop most harvesting bots which are easy to break using
Perl.


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