To what end? It's not doing you any good and I doubt if you're saturating anything.
Those addresses will be used and sold and resold and even though the connections will be refused, they hit real mail servers and use up real resources. We've retired hundreds of email addresses over the years and we still get attempted spam to them as much as five years later. Bandwidth used is minimal, but I see hundreds, and sometimes thousands of attemts in our mail server logs each day. Some of the addresses I see attempted day in and day out were obviously harvested by a faulty bot - addresses such as aster@ and er@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] They've never accepted a single message, yet they're tried every single day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 1:05 PM Subject: Re: Anti-Spam Email harvesting > I also include a contact.htm page with poisoned email addresses and a blind link > to it from the page footers. This will saturate the spam harvest bots with > invalid addresses. > > example: http://www.clickdoug.com/contact.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
