A good start is: http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap/
Though it has some specific details for mod_perl, much of the information can be tied to php. On Mon, 13 May 2002, David McInnis wrote: > I have been running a newswire service since 97 and recently noticed an > increase in the number of people flipping our site to harvest email > addresses contained in the news releases posted on our site. (prweb.com) > > I am running apache and php on a linux box. Can anyone suggest > something that I can implement that would block users who are harvesting > data from our site? I do not mind legit users from using this data, but > the flippers are chewing up my bandwidth and db resources. > > I also want to be careful to not block valid search engine spiders from > indexing our site. > > David McInnis > > > -- .--- .- ... --- -. / -- --- .-. . .... --- ..- ... . Jason Morehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netconcepts LTD Auckland, New Zealand - Linux: free your mind and your OS will follow -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
