Hi all, I recently set up an account with the "Project Honey Pot." One component of this project allows you to set up a "honey pot" page on your web site that gathers information on web bots harvesting email addresses for spamming purposes. You can do this in a way that is invisible to most site visitors, and it works transparently once set up. It only took me a minute to set up and the php page that it generated (which you have to install on your site) runs perfectly on HCoop's current infrastructure.
Eventually, I think that we could implement the "black hole" software at the server level to stop spam bots from harvesting all of the sites on our servers. This might help us to save bandwidth and server resources as well. I would certainly wait until the new infrastructure is stable to suggest such a change, of course. For now, though, I just wanted to toss this out to the group in case anyone is interested in experimenting with the honey pot software on your own web sites. It's easy and I think helps to fight back against increasingly annoying spamming practices. Here is the project URL: http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ Have fun and I'd like to hear your experiences with this software! Justin _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
