On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jason Antonacci wrote:
> Mr. Aldrich;
>
> If you find this sugarplum program to be effective, please relay the
> information to the mailing list or me directly. Where is it available
> from? I am very interested for exactly the same reasons. There will never
> be any effective legislation against unsolicited email, therefore it is up
> to responsible sysadmins to protect themselves. Unleash the Jihad! ;)
>
Well, I went to their home page, but I found it on
Linuxberg initially. I *think* it's main purpose is to
generate a web page that will confuse and "poison" the
email databases maintained by spiderbots who gather email
addresses from websites.
Here's the data from the Linuxberg website
(http://downcity.linuxberg.com/conhtml/net_emailutils.html
is the site I went to):
Version: Stable 0.8.2
Revision Date: June 8, 1999
Byte Size: 22,732
License: GPL
Home Page: http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/
Description: Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner. Its
purpose is to feed realistic
and enticing, but totally useless data to wandering spam-bots
such as EmailSiphon,
Cherry Picker, etc. The idea is to so contaminate spammers'
databases as to require that
they be discarded, or at least that all data retrieved from
your site (including actual
e-mail addresses) be removed.
