, 2005-01-12
Arbitration is part of the next wave of security measures, and can be effective against spammers who illegally harvest email addresses from a honeypot on your website.
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A New Tool In The Spam War
2005-01-13
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Do I see a hole in this?
2005-01-14
Tom Haddon (1 replies)
Tom Haddon (1 replies)
On you web site you get (for instance) 6 different bot harvesters collecting this 'special' E-mail address over the period of two weeks.
After week three you start getting spams directed at this E-mail address - all from IP's/sources different from the harvesters.
This seems reasonable as most harvesters sell these lists to other companies (ie: spamming scum).
Would sorting out who sold the addresses not be like trying to untangle a spider web?
This scenario I think may be good in theory but without changing this 'ghost' E-mail address after each bot (aka: make work project) I think this would be easily torn apart in court.
Zaf
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