Spamholes Fighting Spammers

mike9010 writes "A person named I)ruid has come up with an ingenious way to combat those spammers. His program, spamhole, creates a false 'open relay' that the spammer thinks he/she can send messages through. The messages then get sent nowhere, and the spammer has no idea. "spamhole is an open project. Hopefully, through user's and developer's contributions, we will amass a collection of spamhole implementations spanning all commonly used platforms, programming languages, etc. Ease of configuration and use are the primary objectives, for the easier to use by the non-techical layperson the implementations are, the more widely adopted and used spamhole will become.""

Comments

I bet...

[hookedup]

They (spammers) just start putting one of their own emails on their list. Once they finish their spam sending fest, they check their inbox, if they see nothing, then do it again on another relay.

PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU ARE A SPAMMER :)

Re:How can this work?

[KDan]

Most spammers use automated tools to fire off a huge amount of messages. They wouldn't likely bother with sending a message to themselves.

Actually I would think any half-arsed spam tool will periodically send messages to itself to check that the relay is still working... So this spamhole idea, while neat, won't work with any but the most basic of spammers.

Daniel