Intro
addies and
spamtricker are two
perl scripts
that generate web pages full of fake email addresses. The idea is to thwart
spammers who use
Internet spiders
to collect email addresses. When the spider, or
robot,
visits the page, it fills the spammer's database with
non-working addresses, and (hopefully) helps put the
evildoer
out of business.
The two programs perform their task in different ways.
addies is a
CGI
program and is the easiest to install.
spamtricker generates static
HTML pages, presumably at intervals set by a
cron
schedule. It is more effective than the CGI script, but requires
more work and server permissions to install.
This is not an original idea on my part. I first saw
similarly generated pages
here and
then here. I
just wrote my own scripts as a "fun" programming exercise.
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