Justin's Linklog

while thinking about the CDT’s report on spammer address-scraping techniques again, it occurred to me that one finding is very significant; high-traffic websites probably get much more spam than low-traffic ones.

Now, I’ve got spamtraps up on pretty much all my sites, using a variety of methods:

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plain mailto links, with instructions to human users not to use them (don’t mail that one either, obviously ;)

hidden mailto links in the page’s <head> block (browsers will not display text elements outside the <body> block)

hidden mailto links in a <!– HTML comment –>

empty mailto links in the text (ie.

<a
href="mailto:foo></a></code">)



mod_rewrite pages, which are displayed to spam-scraping bots instead
of the real thing



But all my sites are small-time, really. ;) So -- anyone out there in
the blogosphere care to help out the SpamAssassin project, by feeding us
trapped spam? It'd be simply a matter of adding a mailto: link, hidden in
a comment on a prominent page of your high-traffic website. Gimme a mail
to this address if
you do. 


(warning: that address will expire in 6 months. if you're reading this
after Aug 2003, use the addr on this page instead.)


The spam trapped in such a way is fed into a number of spamtrap-fed
network systems, like Razor, DCC, Pyzor, and the Blitzed OPM blacklist.
It's also used during the SpamAssassin score-regeneration process.

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