Re: Feeding spam to the spammers

I'm not a real doofus, but I play one at a national laboratory. (BAISLEY@fndcd.fnal.gov)
Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:54:14 -0600


> This may be a dumb question, but won't these pages also screw up search
> engines (e.g. AltaVista)?

Definitely. So, if you set up a script like this, be nice and add it to your
robot exclusion file, which any self-respecting spambot will ignore.

The other slightly worrisome aspect is that a bogus email address could
eventually become legit, and there'll be possibly millions of existing lists
containing it. Kind of like being given a phone number from a recently
deceased business, not that *that* ever happens.

Cheers,
Wayne