Feeding spam to the spammers

I'm not a real doofus, but I play one at a national laboratory. (BAISLEY@fndcd.fnal.gov)
Tue, 2 Dec 1997 15:34:51 -0600


> From: david mankins <dm@k12-nis-2.bbn.com>
> To: silent-tristero@world.std.com
>
> A CGI script that hopes to snare address-collecting web-crawling
> spambots by generating bogus email addresses and further links (to
> itself) for the spambot to pursue.
>
> http://e-scrub.com/wpoison
>
> - david mankins (dm@bbn.com, dm@world.std.com, phone(US): 617-873-2873)

This is slick, and ever so much fun! Make sure you try out the
business end of the ruse at

http://e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/wpoison/wpoison.cgi

(It produces pages that look like output from an anagrammer, so I'd
like it anyway.)

Cheers,
Wayne

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