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Spam or not spam? Oooh tough call.
In amongst today’s crop of spam trying to get me to part with my money by fair means or foul, I found the following examples. I despair, I really do……
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Ask Auntie Jaybee
There are many times when you’d dearly love to send an acerbic response to spammers but you just know you’d end up regretting it when he, for it is usually a he, discovers he has a valid mark. There are moves afoot to stop these people dead in their tracks, see my post on Spamming the Spammers, which probably means that I’m about to lose a really good source of posts.
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Spamming the spammers
Ages ago I signed up for an interesting initiative called Project Honeypot. The idea was that you took a script which contained links to a page full of emails donated by kind hearted people who weren’t using the accounts. You placed this code in your site and left a link lying around so the spambots would find it and grab the email addresses. Honeypot then track them down and squidgyfy them.
This appealed to my sense of justice so I added them to all my sites, and my client sites, and got great satisfaction checking my stats on the Honeypot site. I’ve personally helped catch over 50 harvesters. OOOOOOOH the satisfaction.
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