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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. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP wooOt!

  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

    1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      404 FP NOT FOUND

  3. Hot girts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I say we bring back the Natalite Portman, Petrified and Naked/Hot Grits posts yet again...

    Also, the ones from segfault: "Yet another story that has gone by that has failed to mention my gigantic cock"

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  6. woah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try this code: click here for gapcode

  7. Re:Wow, news from March by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because I read it in March, decided it wasn't something that anybody with a brain couldn't figure out, and moved on. Guess you're right, I should've submitted it.

  8. Re: Spammers are pretty simple (for now) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why don't you just use Brian@BrianEwart.com?