Posted by Nikita the Spider on 10/14/06 17:16

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<doraymeRidThis-B1C306.10235414102006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> The simple fact is that I do not know how these bots work, do
> they look in strings starting with "mailto:" or even simpler, any
> "well-formed" ascii email string.

I'm sure there's a variety of them out there. I've gotten hits on URLs
before that are only expressed in HTML comments, which tells me that
some bots are not properly parsing the HTML but probably just scanning
the source for "<a" or "http://" and using that as their flag for a
link. I would think that some do the same for "mailto:" as you
suggested, or maybe just "@".

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