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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Thoughts on spam control
I saw an interesting link suggested in this group for the spam problem: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ >From there I saw this program. http://www.e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/deadbolt.cgi/show_demo_entry These are both interesting programs, but may have inherent problems. wpoison: Traps e-mail web crawlers, but what is to stop it from trapping other web crawlers that altavista, webcrawler, excite, yahoo and other people use? It boasts that it can provide an almost infinite number of bogus e-mail addresses as well as hyperlinks. (these hyperlinks point directly back to the same page) Why would you want to trap a web crawler on your site, using your bandwidth and resources almost indefinitely? Deadbolt(tm): This filters out known e-mail spammers, from an automatically update-able lists, provided by E-scrub Technologies. What happens when a majority of ISPs are using a filter like this and a legitimate e-mail address is accidently put in the list? That e-mail address would then be denied by a majority of the ISPs. -- Patrick Lynch -- INDnet Network Engineer E-mail -- [email protected], [email protected] Phone: 317.263.8966 FAX: 317.263.8831
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