Email-address harvesting (English Wikipedia)

Heather Harreld (5 December 2000). "Embedded HTML 'bugs' pose potential security risk". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2006-12-10. Retrieved 2007-01-06.

kloth.net

Ralf D. Kloth, Trap bad bots in a bot trap Archived 2006-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
Ralf D. Kloth, Fight SPAM, catch Bad Bots Archived 2006-06-01 at the Wayback Machine: "Generating web pages with long lists of fake addresses to spoil the spam bot's address data base is not encouraged, because it is unknown if the spammers really care and on the other hand, the use of those addresses by spammers will cause additional traffic load on network links and involved innocent third party servers."

legislation.govt.nz

"Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 No 7, Public Act Subpart 2—Address-harvesting software and harvested-address lists". legislation.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2021-07-04.

measuring-up.com

SEO Glossary Archived 2010-12-28 at the Wayback Machine: "A spider trap refers to either a continuous loop where spiders are requesting pages and the server is requesting data to render the page or an intentional scheme designed to identify (and "ban") spiders that do not respect robots.txt."

ohohlfeld.com

downloads.ohohlfeld.com

Hohlfeld, Oliver; Graf, Thomas; Ciucu, Florin (2012). Longtime Behavior of Harvesting Spam Bots (PDF). ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-07-18.

portability.com.au

"Portability Support: Spider Blocking => Spider Trap - Detects and blocks bad bots". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-02-12. A Spider Trap which generates 5,000 fake email addresses and blocks the client from further access.

robotcop.org

robotcop.org Archived 2019-10-20 at the Wayback Machine: "Webmasters can respond to misbehaving spiders by trapping them, poisoning their databases of harvested e-mail addresses, or simply block them."

spamhaus.org

"Spam Unsubscribe Services". The Spamhaus Project Ltd. 29 September 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. Retrieved 2007-01-06.

spamhelp.org

Harvester Killer Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine: generates fake emails and traps spiders in an endless loop.

spider-trap.de

Thomas Zeithaml, Spider Trap: How It Works Archived 2018-04-11 at the Wayback Machine

theguardian.com

Arthur, Charls (2007-09-13). "Do social network sites genuinely care about privacy?". theguardian. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2007-10-30.

web.archive.org

Arthur, Charls (2007-09-13). "Do social network sites genuinely care about privacy?". theguardian. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
Heather Harreld (5 December 2000). "Embedded HTML 'bugs' pose potential security risk". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2006-12-10. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
"Spam Unsubscribe Services". The Spamhaus Project Ltd. 29 September 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
"EFA Analysis of Australian Spam Bills 2003". efa.org.au. Electronic Frontiers Australia. 2003-11-01. Address Harvesting Software and Lists. Archived from the original on 2021-05-04.
"Australia slams the door on spam". 2003-08-18. Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
"Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 No 7, Public Act Subpart 2—Address-harvesting software and harvested-address lists". legislation.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
"Public Law 108–187" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-01-04. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
Silvan Mühlemann, 20 July 2008, Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared
Hohlfeld, Oliver; Graf, Thomas; Ciucu, Florin (2012). Longtime Behavior of Harvesting Spam Bots (PDF). ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
Roel Van Gils, A List Apart, 6 November 2007, Graceful Email Obfuscation Archived 2011-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
"15 U.S. Code § 7704 - Other protections for users of commercial electronic mail" Archived 2016-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, Section a.4.b.1.A.i
SEO Glossary Archived 2010-12-28 at the Wayback Machine: "A spider trap refers to either a continuous loop where spiders are requesting pages and the server is requesting data to render the page or an intentional scheme designed to identify (and "ban") spiders that do not respect robots.txt."
[1] Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine A Spider Trap which bans clients which access it.
Thomas Zeithaml, Spider Trap: How It Works Archived 2018-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
Ralf D. Kloth, Trap bad bots in a bot trap Archived 2006-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
"How to keep bad robots". fleiner.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
Ralf D. Kloth, Fight SPAM, catch Bad Bots Archived 2006-06-01 at the Wayback Machine: "Generating web pages with long lists of fake addresses to spoil the spam bot's address data base is not encouraged, because it is unknown if the spammers really care and on the other hand, the use of those addresses by spammers will cause additional traffic load on network links and involved innocent third party servers."
Harvester Killer Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine: generates fake emails and traps spiders in an endless loop.
"Portability Support: Spider Blocking => Spider Trap - Detects and blocks bad bots". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-02-12. A Spider Trap which generates 5,000 fake email addresses and blocks the client from further access.
robotcop.org Archived 2019-10-20 at the Wayback Machine: "Webmasters can respond to misbehaving spiders by trapping them, poisoning their databases of harvested e-mail addresses, or simply block them."

webmasterworld.com

[1] Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine A Spider Trap which bans clients which access it.