[Updated] SPAM is dumb

Hi,

wouldn't it be better instead of including the http web address, including an email address with that domain? Or even more fun: Include a fictive email address with ones own domain and setup a server side automatic forwarding for that address to the dump domain? This would only mean that you do not only catch your random generated adresses, but any email adressed to this dump domain.

Hi,

simple. At least in Germany we have to include an "Impressum" which has to contain a real e-mail address. And this address has to be in text format.

Now the idea is to include another e-mail address on the same page with the same domain and an existing but never used user part. Let's assume my real e-mail address would be: siegfried@somewhere.de. Then i include another e-mail address of f.ex. Uhlenspiegel@somewhere.de, and add this entry to my account and my web page. This could not be verified by any software in the world as a spam trap (as could be the fixed domain this.is-dump.com). On the provider side i install that e-mail address as an automatic forward to your spam trap domain with some username, f.ex. siegfried@this.id-dump.com. Now the address (the secondary) included on my web page would be an existing one out of my own domain, undistinguishable from any real address, but ficitve as i never would get any e-mail sent to that address. E-mail to this address is per definition spam, cause i will never use it, and it will be included on the page in a way that human visitors won't use this for sending e-mail.

Additionally: It would be quite easy for an e-mail address harvester to assume a spam-trap if it finds a web-page just full of e-mail adresses without any other content. So the e-mail addresses pointing to your spam-trap must be within regular content and must be indestinguishable from normal valid e-mail addresses.

Hi,

i just wrote a "tutorial" on how to implement that in our webring forum:
http://www.dsa-ring.com/vbb2/showthread.php?t=7076

German forum, so German text