Comments on: New Trend: Scraping Via Email

By: Google Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked - PlagiarismToday

Google Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked - PlagiarismToday — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:47:24 +0000

[...] on the Blogger service. Now would be an excellent time for sites that offer email subscriptions to check for any @blogger.com accounts and everyone to consider taking feed protection steps such as installing Antileech, creating a feed [...]

By: A Warning for Email List Admins - PlagiarismToday

A Warning for Email List Admins - PlagiarismToday — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:07:27 +0000

[...] I wrote an article about scraping via email. In it, I detailed how spam bloggers, especially those using Blogspot, would take an RSS feed, pass [...]

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:26:55 +0000

Jim: Glad you liked the post! I’m going to have more on this later this week!

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:26:55 +0000

Jim: Glad you liked the post! I’m going to have more on this later this week!

By: Jim Goldstein

Jim Goldstein — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:20:36 +0000

Great post. This sheds a little more light into splogs that I was otherwise unaware of.

By: Jim Goldstein

Jim Goldstein — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:20:36 +0000

Great post. This sheds a little more light into splogs that I was otherwise unaware of.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:49:02 +0000

I can help you with the Blogspot ones, look for anything with this format (name.gibberish@blogger.com) and you should have someone trying to scrape via RSS. However, I doubt they’re going to be dumb enough to use FeedBurner, they’re going to use a third party service such as SendMeRSS where it isn’t a glowing red flag to you.

Then again, I might be overestimating the scrapers here… Wouldn’t be the first time.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:49:02 +0000

Cybele: Exactly. I mentioned it briefly in the post but the confirmation link has to be clicked from the block as it will be pulled down as a new post. The post has to then be deleted. All services, if they are going to reply with CANSPAM, have to do this.

I can help you with the Blogspot ones, look for anything with this format (name.gibberish@blogger.com) and you should have someone trying to scrape via RSS. However, I doubt they're going to be dumb enough to use FeedBurner, they're going to use a third party service such as SendMeRSS where it isn't a glowing red flag to you.

Then again, I might be overestimating the scrapers here... Wouldn't be the first time.

By: cybele

cybele — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:39:23 +0000

Feedburner’s subscribe by email makes the end user click through a confirmation. Is that what they’d do, pull the confirmation into a “post” and then click on it from there?

Feedburner allows me to see all of the subscribers. Perhaps if I knew the construction or domain of these email addresses I could do a periodic search.

(If the scrapers were smart they’d filter out that footer that allows you to unsub though.)

By: cybele

cybele — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:39:23 +0000

Feedburner's subscribe by email makes the end user click through a confirmation. Is that what they'd do, pull the confirmation into a "post" and then click on it from there?

Feedburner allows me to see all of the subscribers. Perhaps if I knew the construction or domain of these email addresses I could do a periodic search.

(If the scrapers were smart they'd filter out that footer that allows you to unsub though.)