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Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap

Posted by Hemos on from the stopping-the-bots dept.

Neil Gunton writes "Having been hit by a load of spambots on my community site, I decided to write a Spambot Trap which uses Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, ipchains and Embperl to quickly block spambots that fall into the trap. "

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  1. A better solution: obfuscate the mailto: link by rsidd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Write some of your email address using html code for the ascii characters, like &#36 &#35 114 for "r".
    (Yes, I've posted about this before, but it does work for me.) Browsers render it so users get the address they want, but spambots try to grab it from the raw html and get something meaningless.