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Spam-X - Anti-Spam application

Spam-X acts as a spambot tarpit by trapping a spambot into requesting page after page of random, fake email addresses. It also acts as though it were on a very slow link by taking a full minute to send each page of sixty random mailto: links. It outputs extremely minimal HTML in an effort to minimize its bandwidth impact, while at the same time letting you flood a visiting spambot's database with thousands of worthless email addresses and use up lots of the spambot's time.

Placing a small or hidden link to the Spam-X script above any valid mailto: links on your site will hopefully trap the visiting spambot and keep it from harvesting a valid email address.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.lindstromconsulting.com/software/spam-x.html
Source tarballhttp://www.lindstromconsulting.com/spam-x.html?HTTP&spam-x-3.1.tar.gz
Version 3.1 (stable) released on 2003-07-16
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User install guide available in HTML format from http://www.lindstromconsulting.com/documentation/spam-x/INSTALL.html
Support contacts

Announce List<spam-x-announce@nathanlindstrom.com>
Help List<spam-x@nathanlindstrom.com>
Developer List<spam-x@nathanlindstrom.com>
Bug List<spam-x@nathanlindstrom.com>

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Related information

Interfacesweb
Source languagesPerl
Use requirementsPerl 5.6.0 or later, GNU make 3.76 or later
Related programssugerplum

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-11-19
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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