ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:There's email spiders now?  O_o, I thought there were only website crawlers.  But then...  can't they just use a similar algorithm?

Ummm... Not sure if this answers your questions is but:

Yup, for a long time now. They're smart too, and not hard to code. They can be given a list of search engines or specific sites; and search/crawl/spider around all robot like, grepping for emails. Everything is logged. If a bot hits this page it gets stuck logging ? bogus accounts until the DB is full. Cool huh!
If you meant bots that brute force for active email accounts, then, yup too...

Otherwise: