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31Jul
Hey Pooh, A Honeypot!
Jul 31, 2005 at 10:56AM
Via: thespamweblog
Project Honey Pot is a means by which most anyone with a blog or website can pitch in to help capture spammers. It works by giving you free e-mail addresses to put on your website thus redirecting the automated SPAM bots (harvesters) to a trap that allows Project Honey Pot to find out the IP addresses of the spammers thus allowing them to take appropriate actions. This is being done because even though the 2004 Canned SPAM Act outlawed the use of harvesters to collect e-mail addresses, harvesters are still collecting e-mail addresses and no one has yet to be charged or prosecuted. Hopefully, that is about to change.
Project Honey Pot is a means by which most anyone with a blog or website can pitch in to help capture spammers. It works by giving you free e-mail addresses to put on your website thus redirecting the automated SPAM bots (harvesters) to a trap that allows Project Honey Pot to find out the IP addresses of the spammers thus allowing them to take appropriate actions. This is being done because even though the 2004 Canned SPAM Act outlawed the use of harvesters to collect e-mail addresses, harvesters are still collecting e-mail addresses and no one has yet to be charged or prosecuted. Hopefully, that is about to change.
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