Get back at spammers...free tool.

Hi, Everyone,

Found this tool, thanks to my ISP, that will allow you to fight back at spammers. You can put it in your cgi-bin or link to their copy.

Go to http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/

If you hate spam, and the effect it has on your business, you'll love this.

Sandi


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Hi Sandi,

Thanks - that looks like a useful way to make life difficult for spammers....

I found this sample page on their site, so you can see the kind of web page that "Wpoison" will create (with false email addresses)....

http://www.monkeys.com/spammers-are-leeches/

Go there, then hit "refresh" a few times to see how the page changes.... :)

- Dien

> Hi, Everyone,

> Found this tool, thanks to my ISP, that will
> allow you to fight back at spammers. You can
> put it in your cgi-bin or link to their
> copy.

> Go to http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/ If
> you hate spam, and the effect it has on your
> business, you'll love this.

> Sandi

I read the WPoison website...

Regarding CPU usage and bandwidth...it pauses
every few seconds before it generates another
bogus page. The spider could be tied up 'til
the next morning?

Now I know most of us have more bandwidth
available than we may ever use, but if I was
an ISP, I wouldn't want any of my clients
wasting CPU time/bandwidth with this script
feeding junk email addresses to some hungry
monster email harvesting machine!

Am I wrong, or couldn't this thing bring down
a server? Isn't this like a reverse email bomb?

Where is our resident techie with the answer?

Confused,

JDB


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Hi Sandi

Looks good, but there may be an aspect re Google.

Google is well known to hate any pages in which what a human sees is different from what a crawler might see. I'm not talking about any WPoison created page, but the page with the "invisible" link on it.

Might cause a problem with your page being listd with Google. Comments anyone?

Cheers

Philip

> Hi, Everyone,

> Found this tool, thanks to my ISP, that will
> allow you to fight back at spammers. You can
> put it in your cgi-bin or link to their
> copy.

> Go to http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/ If
> you hate spam, and the effect it has on your
> business, you'll love this.

> Sandi

Thanks for the interesting comments. Have no idea how Google would see this. Something to consider, though.

What's even more confusing, I think, is that I found this in use (at least I assume so since it had a logo and link to the site) on my ISP's page. If it was a bandwidth hog, I wonder why he'd use such a thing? Hmmmm.

Resident Techie, we want to know...please. :o)

Sandi

> I read the WPoison website...

> Regarding CPU usage and bandwidth...it
> pauses
> every few seconds before it generates
> another
> bogus page. The spider could be tied up 'til
> the next morning?

> Now I know most of us have more bandwidth
> available than we may ever use, but if I was
> an ISP, I wouldn't want any of my clients
> wasting CPU time/bandwidth with this script
> feeding junk email addresses to some hungry
> monster email harvesting machine!

> Am I wrong, or couldn't this thing bring
> down
> a server? Isn't this like a reverse email
> bomb?

> Where is our resident techie with the
> answer?

> Confused,

> JDB

Spam is bad enough already. It already takes up loads of bandwidth traveling around the 'net.

This will just make it worse because of all the underliverables which will then bounce back.

Think of it... a spammer sends an email to a dud address. The mail server bounces it back to the spammer - who used a dud address. The returned mail message also bounces back. Maybe in a never-ending bounceback loop. Waisting bandwidth at the same time.

Michael Ross