[thelist] Spam traps

[Chris]

I think the idea behind it is to fill email harvesters with large
quantities of useless data, ie: non-existant randomly generated email
addresses,
thus rendering the complete list useless (what's real, what's not etc)

Although a few email harvesting tools now have 'spam-bait detection' which
tries to avoid such traps, but I do not know how effective these are.

Regards,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Samir M. Nassar
Sent: Saturday, 20 April 2002 12:54 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Spam traps


I came across this link that basically says 'Spam bots welcome'
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sasho/spam.html and I was wondering if this
can help frustrate spam bots.

Would populating ones website with hidden links to pages like this
actually help decrease spam? Or is it more an issue of satisfying ones
own need for revenge? i.e. is this really not that useful?

Samir M. Nassar
RedConcepts.NET - Open Source, Public Service
http://www.redconcepts.net



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