Re: Documentation

On 28 Jan, you wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
>    Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Okay, on my first visit to
> > <http://www.4qd.org/cgi-bin/randcontact.cgi>, email addresses at
> > @rof.com and @oga.com were generated, both of which are valid
> > existing domains. Since the reason for the script is supposedly to
> > give fake email addresses to spamming programs crawling your site, I
> > don't think you should be giving them real email addresses...

> to put this in perspective..
> 
> The script itself is the protected side of a barrier, which is there to
> stop robots crossing it. The liklihood of the script being reached by a
> robot is very low indeed. It's there more for fun for human visitors!

That's not the reason you give at <http://www.4qd.org/Contact/Blank.html>
- there it says the script is specifically for robots who've followed the
link of your Contact button, but not processed the form properly, thereby
ending up at that page, containing a link to the email address generating
script. Also, you have a link to the script from your spam philosophy
page, which any robot could come across in a normal crawl.

And anyway, if it were true that a robot is probably not going to come
across the script, why have it at all?

> My Perl is not up to seeing how the program can generate the domains
> rof and oga - it picks from a wrod list, where these two don't occur.

Well, I managed to find the source for this script on the internet, but
can no longer - however, from what I remember it doesn't just pick from a
word list, it adds random letters, which could (as it does) lead to
generating an existing domain.

ATB,
Matthew
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