i do remember hearing about this some time ago, but never followed it up. thanks for the reminder - it looks like it could be really helpful :)
On 14/09/10 10:11 AM, James Morris wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has heard about Project Honeypot? > > "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 > we 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." > > More details about how they collect their data: [ > http://www.projecthoneypot.org/about_us.php ] > > > cheers, > james. > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst [email protected] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
