Spambot Trap

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Author: Michael Sheldon
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Subject: Spambot Trap
>If lots of webmasters did this, spambots might become so inefficient that
>spam would no longer be economically practical.
>--Phil M.


The spambots might become inefficient, but I doubt it would have a
noticeable affect on spam at all. Very little of the spam I get is from
addresses scraped off websites. The #1 is from addresses used for domain
registration. #2 is from an address used for newsgroup posting. #3 is my
regular personal account, which I've had for many years. That one got
significantly worse after the latest viruses started spreading it
willy-nilly. #4 are standard "role" accounts (webmaster@). Addresses posted
on my websites are well below any of these.

Michael J. Sheldon
http://www.desertraven.com/
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