my roomie found something called "ORBS lite" it includes only things that
have proven positive.. not ORBS's "we hate you" list.. i havn't looked it
up.. but I was going to play with it tomorow.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:
> ORBS is overkill, so how about making our addresses a little more difficult to
> harvest by the spambots?
>
> I have turned on identd's DES encryption, so that pident cannot be used to
> harvest usernames.
>
> I have turned off sendmail's HELP command and EXPN and VRFY commands.
>
> Now, the hard part. Does anyone have time to perl program to search for all the
> mailto: links and change them to something like this?
>
> before:
>
> mailto:clueless at newbie.com
>
> After:
>
> mailto:clueless@newbie.com
>
> That should make it harder for spambots to hit the archives and harvest email
> addreses.
>
> I have turned on mod_rewrite for the known spambots
> <http://mosa.unity.ncsu.edu/brabec/antispam.html> out there, to direct them to
> the bit-bucket. I am VERY tempted to feed them bogus addresses
> <http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/harassment.html>
>
> Please let me know if you have time to write a perl program to change the
> mailto: links. Thanks.
>
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