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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:49PM -0500, David R.Matusiak wrote:
> Personally, I don't know /what/ to do about spam.  I mean, I get a lot 
> of it, but I try not to let that bother me and simply hit 'delete' a 
> lot.  Thankfully, I don't have to run any mail servers and don't see 
> these problems on a daily basis.

The thing I try to do about spam is refuse to allow it into my network.

> However, I have discovered something recently and was wondering what 
> the resident Spam experts think of this tool/method.  It is called 
> WPoison and it creates random pages of junk addresses and junk links.  
> The idea is to send those automated web scanners into a fitful loop and 
> pollute their "valid email address" lists with a bunch of junk.  
> Effective?  Fair?  Worthwhile?

Pointless. Their lists are already polluted with worthless junk. They do
not care. You're only wasting processor cycles.

Ron Guilmette assures me that wpoison will "never" generate an actual
address, but it stands to reason that even randomly generated email
addys may contain a domain that someone may want in the future - yay!
They just inherited known spamtraps. Hope they hadn't intended to use
them for anything.

I really disapprove of the idea behind wpoison ;)

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