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Personally, I use a combination of tarpits, poisoning their databases, and a website that is rumored to kill the little bastages.

On the same page where I do all this, I also include links to the House and Senate email address pages, figuring if I get spammed, Congress should, too :-)

Personally, I use a combination of tarpits, poisoning their databases, and a website that is rumored to kill the little bastages.

On the same page where I do all this, I also include links to the House and Senate email address pages, figuring if I get spammed, Congress should, too :-)

This guy has had a deliciously evil series of inspriations. My favorite is the generator that traps a spambot in an (almost) infinite loop and feeds it upto 26^49 totally bogus E-Mail addresses. An even more evil thing to do would be to bounce the spambots through a large network of pages on many different sites carrying only a relatively small number of bogus addresses each. That would make this stunt alot harder for the spammer to detect. This writing more of these traps would make a cool hobby....

What about Pattern 158?

Check out the page entitled "SPAMBOT Harassment" on the SPAMBOT Beware page. It's a little dated (~1999) but looks reasonable to me.

Check out the page entitled "SPAMBOT Harassment" on the SPAMBOT Beware page. It's a little dated (~1999) but looks reasonable to me.

• I've implemented a post gate on my site, as described here. Unfortunately, the mail account attached to it is already getting SPAM, so I can't tell if it's working. Does anyone know if the 'bots that SPAMers use these days are sophisticated enough to handle post methods?
• The SPAMBOT Beware has a lot of other suggestions, and any page titled SPAMbot Harassment gets my vote. I do wonder how effective these dated (~1999) techniques would be today. Any opinions?
• Finally, I was thinking of implementing a SPAMbot CGI trap that sleeps, say, five seconds before posting a page of bogus addresses (and domains) and a link to another page that's simply a soft link to itself. Does this sound like it ought to work? After all, if I like recursion, shouldn't a SPAMbot? ;)

• I've implemented a post gate on my site, as described here. Unfortunately, the mail account attached to it is already getting SPAM, so I can't tell if it's working. Does anyone know if the 'bots that SPAMers use these days are sophisticated enough to handle post methods?
• The SPAMBOT Beware has a lot of other suggestions, and any page titled SPAMbot Harassment gets my vote. I do wonder how effective these dated (~1999) techniques would be today. Any opinions?
• Finally, I was thinking of implementing a SPAMbot CGI trap that sleeps, say, five seconds before posting a page of bogus addresses (and domains) and a link to another page that's simply a soft link to itself. Does this sound like it ought to work? After all, if I like recursion, shouldn't a SPAMbot? ;)

• I've implemented a post gate on my site, as described here. Unfortunately, the mail account attached to it is already getting SPAM, so I can't tell if it's working. Does anyone know if the 'bots that SPAMers use these days are sophisticated enough to handle post methods?
• The SPAMBOT Beware has a lot of other suggestions, and any page titled SPAMbot Harassment gets my vote. I do wonder how effective these dated (~1999) techniques would be today. Any opinions?
• Finally, I was thinking of implementing a SPAMbot CGI trap that sleeps, say, five seconds before posting a page of bogus addresses (and domains) and a link to another page that's simply a soft link to itself. Does this sound like it ought to work? After all, if I like recursion, shouldn't a SPAMbot? ;)

That was mentioned in a wee little paragraph near the end of the "Web Page Address Harvesting" section, and included some simple sample CGI.