August 1, 2005

• Help fight spam

  Visit SpamPoison to get your HTML code. All you have to do is paste the code somewhere in your webpage or blog. The way it works is this:

  1. Spammers use some nasty programs called “crawlers”. Those
     programs do nothing but surfing from webpage to webpage by following
     the links, looking for e-mail addresses.
  2. The crawlers also automatically send spam e-mails to those e-mail addresses.
  3. SpamPoison is a website that generates random website and e-mail addresses.
  4. Once the crawlers get to your page, they will follow the random link that you got from SpamPoison.
  5. The
     random link leads to a webpage with even more random links that lead to
     webpages with even more random links that lead to… You get the point.
     
  6. So the crawlers gets stuck surfing random links.
  7. Here
     is the best part: the random webpages will have either randomly
     generated or spammers’ e-mail addresses. Because of that, the crawlers
     will send spam e-mails to spammers.
  8. The crawlers keeps a huge list of randomly generated and spammers’ e-mail addresses until they run out of memory and crash.

  Nifty, eh?

  - SwordAngel

  • 5:12 pm
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