doulos - 9:26 pm on Apr 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

Hate to tell you this but email harvestors are much simplier than you think

One that I'm familiar with simply followsa every link on a webpage building it's "todo list". Then it parses our any string with a "@" symbol in it. Pretty simple

Once you harvest the emails then you run a program that validates each email address removing the garbage. You can open a connection to the SMTP server of each email address to verify the email address.

Plust the email harvesters comes in on port 80 and makes the requests just like any web browser would..