[13212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammer web harvesting tool countermeasures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Stevens)
Thu Oct 30 22:02:52 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 97 20:01:44 -0800
From: Jon Stevens <jon@clearink.com>
To: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@jain.com>
cc: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>, <nanog@merit.edu>,
"Brian L. Brush" <bbrush@ace.acomp.usf.edu>
"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/>
