Heh. Now Here's A Way to Fight Back Against Spammers.
Heh. Now Here's A Way to Fight Back Against Spammers
Try installing SugarPlum, a spam “honey pot” which gives Spammers tons and tons of bad addresses to send to.
Sugarplum — spam poison
What is Sugarplum?
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Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner. Its purpose is to feed realistic and enticing, but totally useless or hazardous data to wandering address harvesters such as EmailSiphon, Cherry Picker, etc. The idea is to so contaminate spammers' databases as to require that they be discarded, or at least that all data retrieved from your site (including actual email addresses) be removed.
Sugarplum employs a combination of Apache's mod_rewrite URL rewriting rules and perl code. It combines several anti-spambot tactics, includling fictitious (but RFC822-compliant) email address poisoning, injection with the addresses of known spammers (let them all spam each other), deterministic output, and “teergrube” spamtrap addressing.
Sugarplum tries to be very difficult to detect automatically, leaving no signature characteristics in its output, and may be grafted in at any point in a webserver's document tree, even passing itself off as a static HTML file. It can optionally operate deterministically, producing the same output on many requests of the same URL, making it difficult to detect by comparison of multiple HTTP requests.
Sugarplum is free software, distributed under terms of the GPL. [_Go_]