DutyMan uses email addresses extensively. Does this mean it is vulnerable to email crawlers?
Email crawlers, aka spiders or bots, are computer programs which read web pages looking for email adddresses to spam. They read pages in the same way that we do – by following links and looking at the information received. DutyMan retrieves data from its own database so information about duties is not stored in the web pages themselves. An email crawler might follow the DutyMan link from a club’s web site to its duty roster. Once there it could see member names but no email addresses appear on this page. To see email addresses you must first log in either as a member or as an administrator. While the ingenuity of crawler developers must never be underestimated it is exceedingly unlikely that they will be able to follow this route. For additional security consider putting the link to DutyMan inside a members-only section of your website.
