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Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and
is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
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Linux Journal and frequently appears
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Additionally, Dave maintains four weblogs:
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Dave On Film,
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Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
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his community and busy single father to three children.
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How long does it take to scrape an email address?
Well, almost two weeks ago I reported that I had been given a Gmail account, and experimentally included my Gmail address as a hyperlink in the message here on my Weblog. This morning I received my first spam to the account, a message that has nothing to do with the few contexts where I've shared the new Gmail address. My conclusion: they must have scraped it from this Web site.Ten days.
Something to think about when you add mailto: links on your site!
Posted by Dave Taylor at May 8, 2004 2:27 PM
Comments
If the e-mail address were a mailto or any kind of hyperlink, I can understand how incredibly easy it would be to scrape the information from a website, but would the same be true if you had me@online.com in the text? Could they not use a slightly more sophisticated script to catch those?
Posted by: Cooper on May 19, 2004 1:02 AMApparently yes. Spammers have gotten pretty smart. My solution is really to just have a form for input rather than an email address...
Posted by: Dave Taylor on May 19, 2004 4:15 PM
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