Who Loves Spam?
Published 19 January 2007
by random pete.
Last updated 23 January 2007.
No. Nobody likes spam. Which begs the question, why do they keep sending it, and who would actually buy anything off them?
There's plenty of anti-spam software systems out there, but all too often real emails also get flagged. You have the option of never providing your email address anywhere publicly... but unfortunately sometimes that's not possible and can be very limiting! There might be another way... I've come across WPoison, a system that actually fights back at the spammers by feeding them bogus address! Unfortunately it's written in perl. I might have to convert it to dot.net...
I found this link in a page I was browsing at devnull.net:
This link is SpamBait.
Don't bother following it, it points to a program that generates an endless series of web pages containing randomly generated email addresses (and links back to itself ...) for the benefit of spammers trolling web sites for targets. Check out the Wpoison Homepage for more information.
The link follows to the WPoison setup on the original site (it's actually a series of links, one for each letter of the alphabet). They display a whole list of completely fabricated email addresses and links to further pages containing further lists, the aim being to "trap" the spammer's bot in a maze of pages, flooding their database with unusable (dis)information.
If you own your own website you are encouraged to install this system to keep the email harvesters at bay, or at least link to someone else's installation.
I don't know if it has any chance of working, but for the sake of our own santites we have to hope!
Comments on this article
16 comments
Comment by Gerry on 19 January 2007 19:22.
What if some of the fake email addresses turn out to be real????
I guess its a small price to pay, but perhaps not for the person paying iut.
Comment by Gerry on 19 January 2007 19:22.
What if some of the fake email addresses turn out to be real????
I guess its a small price to pay, but perhaps not for the person paying iut.
Comment by Gerry on 19 January 2007 19:23.
What if some of the fake email addresses turn out to be real????
I guess its a small price to pay, but perhaps not for the person paying iut.
Comment by Gerry on 19 January 2007 19:24.
I didnt add three comments. Whats going on there?
Comment by Pete on 23 July 2007 17:10.
Hi Gerry,
This blog is experimental to say the least. I really should get around to spending some more time on it! I've been really busy with other projects though, too busy to even write here.
Hopefully the wPoison scripts check that domains don't exist. Perhaps a better system would be to simply list a whole load of known spammers addresses, and redirect all the junk back at them!
Pete
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