Wpoison

[bookburn]

I see there is a new freeware for giving spammers fits, called
Wpoison. Here is the idea of it, although you have to search on the
WEB to find the download site. I hope everyone installs this and
reports back so I can find out if it works okay. bookburn

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Wpoison - E-Mail Address Harvesting Prevention Utility
Wpoison is a free tool which can be used to help reduce the problem
of bulk junk e-mail on the Internet. Wpoison helps to combat the junk
e-mail problem by thwarting the efforts of junk e-mailers who
regularly scan web pages, looking for target e-mail addresses to
harvest (which they subsequently bombard with junk e-mail).

The idea behind wpoison is really very simple. Junk e-mailers write
programs to automatically scan thousands and thousands of web pages,
looking for e-mail addresses which they then send unsolicited junk
e-mail to (or which they sell to other spammers). By and large, these
address harvesting web crawlers are about as intelligent as the
spammers who use them and/or develop them, which is to say not very.
These programs can be easily fooled into accepting lots and lots of
completely fake and useless e-mail addresses, so long as the bogus
addresses in question appear to reside on ordinary nondescript web
pages. That is where wpoison comes in.

Wpoison generates a web page dynamically which includes a list of
randomized, bogus e-mail addresses, together with a list of randomized
web hyperlinks. Each of the randomized web hyperlinks that wpoison
generates looks exactly like an ordinary web hyperlink that leads off
to someplace else, i.e. to some different web page. But in fact, that
is just a matter of appearances, and the reality is that if you follow
any one of these hyperlinks, you will actually end up coming right
back and executing the wpoison CGI program again, at which point you
will get yet another randomized dynamically generated web page, and
that new page will contain a totally new set of bogus e-mail addresses
and a totally new set of randomized hyperlinks. And of course, all of
those new hyperlinks will, if followed, lead right back to the wpoison
CGI program yet again, thus starting the whole cycle all over again.
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