User: wolfson

Here is what we do

On: How are You Preventing Mailto-Link Harvesting?

Here is the php code that I use on Aginet.com

function gen() {
mt_srand(make_seed());
$x = "aginet3";
$list= "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
$x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)];
$x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)];
$x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)];
$x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)];
$x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)];
$x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)];
$x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)];
echo "<a href=\"mailto:$x@aginet.com\">$x@aginet.com</a> ";
$x .= "\t" . date("m/d/Y h:i A");
$x .= "\t" . $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$x .= "\t" . $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
$x .= "\t" . $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
$fp = fopen("/xxx/xxx/xxx.xxx", "a");
fwrite($fp, $x . "\n", 1024);
fclose($fp);
}

In my mail server I redirect the random addresses to a single e-mail. Then when I get spammed, I can trace it back to an IP, and contact the hosting company or ISP that it originated from.

Visit blue.aginet.com for my other GPL'd code. Feel free to use the source code in this example. I only ask that you give me credit if its used for a commercial purpose.

Jurisdiction

On: Cornucopia of Spam

A lot of people have commented on how laws might only apply to people in your state. NC has a very lax law on spammers. The e-mail must be unsoclicted, commercial, and deceptive. They did also ammend the "LONG ARM JURISDICTION" statue also. This means you just have to be in the US for it to apply to you. I hope other states would do the same.

Effect on Amateur Radio

On: Radio Astronomers Win Spectra

As a Tech Plus Amateur Radio liscense from the FCC i wonder how this will affect us. As a license holder i have allready been promissed access to some of these frequecys. Does this decison overrule thoses. I am now not allowed to use them. And how does a single international organization have control over this process of distributing banwith. Seems like a mighty large chunk to one group.

Scott Wolf
Network Administrator
AGINET
admin@aginet.com