That is awful.  I hate spam bots.

Here is a page discussing steps for ridding your unix site of spambots:
http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap/

Some of the same principles could be applied to a CF site.

HTH,

David Grant

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Behalf Of Hal Barker
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Email Harvesting

Greetings,

Our site has been hit by Korean language email harvesters who send
hundreds of thousands of Hangul emails to visitors to the Korean War
Project who have left their email addresses for contact purposes.

Any suggestions how to limit harvesting, since we have over 45,000 email
addresses open to the public. Taking the email addresses off would
totally kill our site, but anyone who has left their email address now
receives
up to 20 to 30 Korean language SPAM emails a day.

Hal

Hal Barker, Dallas, Texas
B.A. History
Korean War Project
http://www.koreanwar.org
Founder - Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington.D.C.


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