Samurai.Chris

As anybody who knows me groks in fullness, I hate spam and am inclined to do everything I can to help fight it. I've tried all sorts of mechanisms to protect one of my heavily harvested addresses, but that's pretty much as useful as shutting the barn doors after the horses have already gone off to the glue factory.

Anyway, rather than going into the lengthy details of my various battles with spam, I want to talk about something interesting I found at AuditMyPC.com (while running my semi-regular security checkups)... they've got this new feature called Anti-Spam that is designed to mess with the nasty little spam-bots that crawl the internet in search of harvestable email addresses. Basically, it fills the list withrandomly generated  bogus email addresses... over and over and over again, so the rat-bastards running the bots get lists full of useless garbage.

June 23 Update: Here's another one I found at Dave Siegal's/Stephan Mischook's Killer Websites page: Spam Blocker Coalition.
spam blocker - help fight spam email!

Admittedly, it seems imperfect (maybe they can just write a script to scrub their lists, or alter the bot to ignore the link) but it's worth a shot.

I also wonder what implications this would have for search engine spiders... it'd be a bit of a shame to send them on a perpetual loop. I'm guessing their spiders are a bit smarter than the average spam-bot, tho.

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