IP: Email Extraction

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:22:17 -0400
>From: "Sean C. Sheridan" <scs@CampusParty.com>
>To: dave@farber.net
>Subject: Email Extraction
>
>Dave,
>
>
>I suspect you know that there exist email harvesting tools which extract 
>addresses from text and
>html.  (I can write a recursive robot in Perl that performs this task in a 
>few minutes).  In doing a
>search on the IP site for 'mailto' I located more than 200 email 
>addresses, without using any
>program; just the HotBot search feature embedded in the page.
>
>The only way I have found to prevent harvesters from finding my address is 
>to add a '+' to my
>address, as in: scs+@CampusParty.com
>
>Perhaps the IP'ers might consider supporting a standard I am attempting to 
>develop to help prevent
>unwanted spam.  I propose creating a file at the root of your server 
>called harvest.txt listing all
>email addresses associated with that server that have elected Not to 
>receive spam.  (Example
>available at: http://www.CampusParty.com/harvest.txt).
>
>Following the model of the Robot's Exclusion Standard
>(http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html)  I propose 
>the world would be a better
>place if harvesters adopt the Email Exclusion Standard: 
>http://www.CampusParty.com/projects/
>
>
>I welcome comments and criticisms at: harvest@CampusParty.com
>
>
>Sean C. Sheridan
>scs+@CampusParty.com
>(215) 569-3950
>
>Campus Party, Inc.
>1700 Market Street
>Philadelphia, PA
>19103



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