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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Saturday, March 05, 2005  

Project Honey Pot
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email they not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it. To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. They handle the rest automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, they anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website. They collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. They also work with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is critical for finding those breaking the law. Additionally, they will periodically collate the email messages they receive and share the resulting corpus with anti-spam developers and researchers. The data participants in Project Honey Pot will help to build the next generation of anti-spam software. This has been added to the anti-spam section of Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM
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