Web crawlers are prime examples of
high-tech digital electronics at work. These are the electronic programs coming straight from the closets of the world's greatest web developers and software engineers. Another thing, on the evil side, that is, are those e-mail harvesting applications used by the equally brilliant spammers of the world. Such programs crawl around the world wide web, looking for potential e-mail accounts in which to send the messages they want. The messages are known as spam, mind you. Upon searching for potential account candidates, these applications now catalogue their findings and compile it for harvesting. Sounds a bit like a scene from a horror flick involving insect-like conquerors, doesn't it?
But there are certain ways and means in which to prevent this from happening to your electronic messaging account. Since it is virtually a necessity to post your electronic mailing address on the sites you either have an account or frequently visit, there is one good trick in which to confuse those electronic spammers. But, let me start off with a basic trick. This would be posting on the sites a graphical image containing your e-mailing address. That's right, 'cause robots don't know how to read text on pictures, you know.
Now off with the main dish. These applications don't know how to read text on digital images, right? Well, do you think their human counterparts monitor and maintain each harvested e-mail account by those digital beings? No, not a chance! Thus, including in your electronic mailing address, specifically in what you post, special characters anywhere within your
electronic messaging account address would prove very beneficial to you. Of course, an actual human being would know that these characters aren't allowed on most, if not all, e-mail clients. Thus, all this person has to do is extract the special characters so as to get a fully functional e-mail account. But, fortunately for us and very unfortunate for them, these electronic harvesters don't know a thing or two about this!
