address harvesting analysis idea

Sun Sep 28 20:50:31 UTC 2003

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> 
> While sitting here watching bad TV, I had a thought(tm).
> 
> Has anyone set-up a generic web-page, not linked from anywhere useful, which
> autogenerates a "contact e-mail" address (like deadbeef at example.com) and
> logs which IP reads what address (even using the remote IP as the username
> to provide) and then waits for the address to be used for SPAM ?

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/previously/002462.php
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/26/how_to_block_spambots_ban_spybots_and_tell_unwanted_robots_to_go_to_hell

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