Re: Just Another Discussion of Spam

There's an interesting idea at http://members.hostedscripts.com/antispam.html. This page contains a hundered or so randomly generated bogus email addresses and a link to a new such page - idea is to fill spammers's databases with the fake addresses. The script to produce the page is available elsewhere, but it isn't difficult to reproduce. I'm not sure how effective this really is.
chas

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Re^2: Just Another Discussion of Spam by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2005 at 13:56 UTC
Well, you first have to make sure you aren't putting any valid domains on the page (or else, the mailer for that domain has to deal with the spam coming in). Second, it's not difficult for the spammer to check whether, for each harvested address, the domain exists. Sure, it will cost that some resources. But those resources will be cheap, and compared to the shear number of addresses they deal with, not significant.	[reply]

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Re^2: Just Another Discussion of Spam
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2005 at 13:56 UTC

Well, you first have to make sure you aren't putting any valid domains on the page (or else, the mailer for that domain has to deal with the spam coming in). Second, it's not difficult for the spammer to check whether, for each harvested address, the domain exists. Sure, it will cost that some resources. But those resources will be cheap, and compared to the shear number of addresses they deal with, not significant.

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