An email address harvester (“spam robot” or “spambot”) is a web spider that crawls your web site looking for web pages containing email addresses.  To get a web page, the harvester sends a request for the page to your web server. Web browsers and legitimate search engine spiders make the same kinds of requests. If we could distinguish between requests from harvesters and those from legitimate programs, we could deny harvester requests and protect the web site. And if harvesters can’t access the site, they can’t add its email addresses to mailing lists and you’ll get less spam.

Full how to article : http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/05/stop_spammer_email_harvesters_blocking_spammer_access_site

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IMPORTANT: If you join some sort of members forum on the internet, MAKE SURE they dont display your email address on the pages of that website forum after you join or you are going to get SPAMMED by mail harvesters as above article suggests....

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