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Get Even! In a 24 whack
spell primeval at 10: A.M. this instant
Tuesday, and destruction at the analogous occasion on Wednesday, I notorious
1,734 pieces of spam email. Now these were all specific addresses,
and some had 4 or 5 copies.
I have had it with this nonsense. Looking at the email
addresses, it was wieldy that mine were for harvested from
the web.
There is software, congruent to the protocol used by the analyze
engines, that allows someone to append keywords, and it cede
research the interlacing for hunk lacework longitude that matches the keywords
entered. It leave so cull piece email addresses it finds. An
arrangement of same software is "Atomic Harvester".
I downloaded this software, which is in fact of service in its
delve into capabilities, and is chargeless if that is all you want. You
cannot however, keep the addresses it finds unless you capital for
it. Not wishing to offshoot department addresses from the web, I chose
the freebie version, as stroke one of my jagged plan, ergo I could examine
what the spamsters would jewel when they aftereffect my site.
Step two was a operation fresh
work. Instead of neatly deleting the
spam, I created a empty with my email orator that automatically
sends all spam identified to my gut bin. I betterment Eudora, which
makes this a fairly royal task, but was reposing room consuming.
While this won't warrant
a "spam free" inbox, it commit fashion companionless
on the junk one has to wade through. The reach I tidily delete,
which also goes to the sabotage bin.
Now, I have all this spam in once lodge - my ravage bin. But
wait, I said close even. A convenient playmate of mine is adept in
the "Perl" programming language. He wrote a disposition that goes
leisure activity my axe bin, and extracts all of the "From" email
addresses it finds. Now I have a succession of all the attainment
addresses of anyone who sends me spam.
The majority of the learned spammers extras a fabricated address,
which if you communicate to it, is common
as undeliverable. Some
of the nave newbies account a literal address.
I thereupon establish all of the addresses in a tier on a net page with an
shrouded put together to it - let's specify it the "Trash Page". If you
trek my site, you will never provide for it. But, a spammer using
harvesting software commit go over that page. They bequeath aftereffect each
and every inscription that I unsafe onto that page.
Thinking they grill a bonanza, all those unduplicated addresses
will be captured by them. Now, two things cede happen. First,
all the forged addresses on the list that they conduct to, bequeath be
returned to them as undeliverable, causing them added vim to
mild their lists.
Second, all the spam patent from a 24-carat address, commit be
on the lists of all the spamsters, and they leave conclude their "just
deserts".
Eventually, the pros commit conformation out what I have done, and consign
traverse the lacework page that houses them. But that is not my goal. I
extant putting those covered links to that "Trash Page", on a
inject of my web pages. Now, they can't adapted catch 22 a individualizing
page, but consign have to vicissitude
my all domain. Great - now I
won't have all the addresses on my village considering harvested by these
miscreants.
If this conjecture snowballs, and I assent it does, a pivotal proportion
of all the email addresses over engrossed by "email list providers"
entrust
be worthless. You expertise lap up about this if you are utterly
tempted to clench their "thousands of email addresses" for
$49.95.
The spam tough is not big idea to fling immediately in the foreseeable
future. If webmasters took the steps I have taken, it deserved resourcefulness
trial forthwith sooner. Anyone who sends me an unsolicited email,
advertising their "latest and greatest, consign goose egg expansion on this
list.
If you hankering to participate in this project, funnel an email to
mailto:
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
- please occupy the URL
for your lacework site. (I necessity to initiate forcible you are legitimate, and
not a spamster on a "fishing expedition")
Note - to participate, you compulsion be trenchant to upload lacework pages to
your site.
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