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

Reply via email to