posted on Jun, 18 2003 @ 08:21 AM
www.monkeys.com...
"The idea behind Wpoison is really very simple. Junk e-mailers write programs to automatically scan thousands and thousands of web
pages, looking for e-mail addresses which they then send unsolicited junk e-mail to, or which they sell to other spammers. By and large,
these address harvesting web crawlers are about as intelligent as the spammers who use and/or develop them, which is to say not very. The
majority of these programs can be easily fooled into accepting lots and lots of completely fake and useless e-mail addresses, so long as the
bogus addresses in question appear to reside on ordinary nondescript web pages. That is where Wpoison comes in."
I'm going to experiment with this fun little piece of software and let you know how it goes. Just as a point of reference:
I've recently scanned the MailLog of my server (digitalf8.com) that hosts ATS and have discovered that about we get about 44,000 attempts by spammers
on a daily basis... some gets through, some doesn't. But this equals about 60 kilobytes a minute of bogus crap that attempts to hit the server... I
don't like that.
We're going to fight back.