spamcop automatically submits all IP numbers in the headers of spam to three
open relay testers. If they are tested as an open relay/open proxy or zombie,
their listings take on some permanence.
I use the blocklists at my mail gateway server, and so far it is doing about 99%
success so far. If a sender is listed, the connection is then drooped, I do not
download the spew.
I also block all mail harvest bots that I can identify. most especially the ones
that try to ignore the robots.txt files. I have default re-direct pages in each
subdirectory on web sites, sending them to the home page should they try that
route.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Mizzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Hiding an Email Address from harvesters
| > And if you are really serious about preventing spam, use real email
| > adresses and set up automatic SpamCop, ORBS, NANAS etc. submissions
| > for everything that hits those addresses.
|
| The page I'm working on is still "beta". When finished, the email
| addresses generated won't look so "false". "Wpoison" does a great job,
| using a huge array or words and domain endings and creates pretty "real"
| looking email addresses that will parse, and that's what I hope to end
| up with when done.
|
| I've already gotten my ISP to block the first "FlipDog" BOT that crawled
| the page. This one had already been blocked by a number of other ISP's,
| so it was easy to convince them to jump on the bandwagon. One down -
| several thousand more to go....
|
| I'm f***ing sick of SPAM.
|
| So, I have several things to do:
|
| 1. My ISP filters for SPAM and reports all they catch.
| However, tons still slips through.
|
| 2. For the ones that slip through:
| a. I take the time to report every freaking one of them
| b. For the repeat ones, I chase the bastards. I recently
| sent a 200 page FAX to the maker of the Magna RX Penis
| patch - copies of all the SPAM advertising their product
| that I had gotten in the last week. They weren't too
| happy. But, that's another story and email.
|
| 3. Go through all my old apps and protect the email addresses.
| a. _javascript_ works great on the "mailto" links.
| b. I'm still experimenting with the CFMAIL tags. I wouldn't
| thing a harvester would/could grab an address - even
| hard coded. But it seems one did. So, I've already
| got a fix for that.
|
| 4. I want to do more than just report or filter these jerks.
| This is why I'm experimenting with various "BOT KILLER"
| type pages. If I can choke/stop a bot or clog somebodies
| database with useless addresses, the more the better. I'm
| obviously still experimenting here too.
|
| I obviously still have a lot to learn, but I'm making a big effort. The
| new "CAN-SPAM" USA legislation that was passed is actually going to do
| very little to stop SPAM, and may make it easier for some spammers to
| operate, from what I can tell. Additionally, as long as spammers can
| relay through China-net and other SPAM friendly servers, what good are
| any US laws when it isn't coming from the US to start with?
|
| Kill 'em all I say. However, that isn't legal, so anything else I can do
| to be a major thorn in the side is great by me.
|
|
| --
| Les Mizzell
| -------------------------
| “Mihi placent, O Pincerna!
| Virent ova! Viret perna!
| Dapem posthac non arcebo.
| Gratum tibi me praebebo.”
|
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