Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:05:41 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: don@wildeweb.partsnow.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: annoying spammers... Message-ID: <199712030105.SAA17545@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <3484A3EC.E07348ED@partsnow.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971202202716.3186A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk> <199712022212.OAA05302@kithrup.com> <3484A3EC.E07348ED@partsnow.com>
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> Another take on the SPAM issue, courtesy of WIRED... please visit > > http://e-scrub.com/wpoison/ > > and tell me if you think this code is worth installing and whether it's > more poison for SPAMmers or my server that I install it on??? I think this will just screw up mostly valid WWW crawlers and such (such as Yahoo and AltaVista). If you don't care about those, then sure, but I suspect most of the harvesting is done via DejaNews and other such 'crawlers' that also generate lots of legitimate information. Nate
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