Spambot Trap

Well then, if you can't beat 'em, might as well join 'em.
>From now on I'll think of UCE as a potentially useful marketing tool.
I don't see anyone having a cow over postal junk mail.
--Phil M.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Sheldon <msheldon@desertraven.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: RE: 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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>
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