Wouldn't any self-respecting spambot keep track of places it has vis=
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and not double-dip? That would nullify the recursive link "feature" I thi=
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I tend to agree that it would do little more than annoy the spammers, and=
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very much.
     Then again, maybe I'm just a fatalist.



On Saturday 05 July 2003 10:47, Phil Mattison wrote:
> Maybe this is old news to some, but I just saw a cool way to fight back
> against spammers. Its a web page script that generates 100 bogus email
> addresses (different every time) for spambots to choke on. It has recur=
sive
> links to itself so the bots will load up on phony addresses and require
> more database cleaning. Easy to do with your own script or just post a =
link
> to theirs:
>
> http://www.hostedscripts.com/scripts/antispam.html
>
> If lots of webmasters did this, spambots might become so inefficient th=
at
> spam would no longer be economically practical.
> --Phil M.
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