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Honeypot For Identifying Email-Harvesters

Posted by timothy on from the off-with-their-heads dept.

Cheese Man writes "Mark Pilgrim describes a simple way to identify email-harvesters: "In each page I serve, I include a bogus email address, encoded with the date of access as well as the host IP address ... This has allowed me to trace spam back to specific hosts and/or robots." There's even a simple one-line example done with PHP. (Thanks to BoingBoing for the links.)"

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  1. 6th post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    6th post you muslim terrorist faggot!

    Please mod me as Troll or Offtopic if you are a gay homosexual faggot.

    That is all.

  2. Re:Wow, news from March by flewp · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Exciting. Glad to see Slashdot is on top of things.
    Why didn't you post it back in March then instead of bitching about something so trivial?

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