From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 2 17:05:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21742 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 17:05:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA21738 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 17:05:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA02884; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:05:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA17545; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:05:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:05:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199712030105.SAA17545@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: don@wildeweb.partsnow.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: annoying spammers... In-Reply-To: <3484A3EC.E07348ED@partsnow.com> References: <199712022212.OAA05302@kithrup.com> <3484A3EC.E07348ED@partsnow.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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