there is some confusion in the words of the original message - please allow
me some comments:
a spider is a software which automatically downloads pages or information
from the internet and which is able to follow links
what happens with the downloaded contents is the point:
1) Google or similar services let their user (us) perform searches on the
downloaded and archived pages. Do you use "Google" ? Then you also use
spiders (somehow).
2) a spammer extracts the email addresses from the pages and sells them
>From my own experience, I have a domain and I am reading the log files,
spiders of services 1) can be mostly excluded as they more or less follow
the rules of robots.txt but spiders of 2) just don't care (and you mostly
cannot identify them).
Therefore the "only" problem IMHO is, do you want to allow your messages to
PIUG becoming available to a broader public ?
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would likely thwart the spamming spiders yet allow the content to be
available to the public.
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