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| Spam-X |
| Computer languages | Perl + |
|---|---|
| Documentation note | User install guide available in HTML format from http://www.lindstromconsulting.com/documentation/spam-x/INSTALL.html |
| Full description | Spam-X is a small anti-spam program that s … Spam-X is a small anti-spam program that seeks to block +email harvesting spambots and flood them with hundreds or even thousands of worthless e-mail addresses. It "hides" these junk mailto: links in the body of a normal-appearing HTML page, which it generates using words from a dictionary of over 45,000 English words. It generates each page of junk mailto: links very slowly, thereby wasting the spambot's time. Last but not least, it includes a "loop back" link to itself, with a random parameter, hoping to fool the spambot in to endlessly looping and thereby getting "stuck" on the Spam-X link and blocking it from ever reaching your real email address. rom ever reaching your real email address. |
| Homepage URL | http://www.lindstromconsulting.com/software/spam-x.html + |
| Interface | web + |
| Is GNU | false + |
| Keywords | header + , mail + , anti-spam + , e-mail + , spam + , harvest + , Spam-X + , spambot + , tarpit + |
| Last review by | Janet Casey + |
| Last review date | 1 August 2005 + |
| License | GPLv2orlater + |
| License verified by | Janet Casey + |
| License verified date | 19 November 2002 + |
| Name | Spam-X + |
| Prerequisite description | GNU make 3.76 or later + , Perl 5.6.0 or later + |
| Prerequisite kind | Required to use + |
| Real name | Nathan Lindstrom + |
| Related projects | CRM114 + , DSPAM + , Seed Spambots + , Sugerplum + , Bogofilter + |
| Resource URL | http://www.lindstromconsulting.com/contact.html + |
| Resource audience | Bug Tracking + , Support + |
| Resource kind | Homepage + |
| Revisionid | 5,244 + |
| Revisiontimestamp | 12 April 2011 14:37:02 + |
| Revisionuser | WikiSysop + |
| Role | Maintainer + |
| Short description | Anti-Spam application + |
| Submitted by | Database conversion + |
| Submitted date | 1 April 2011 + |
| Use | email + |
| User level | none + |
| Version comment | 4.0 stable released 2005-07-30 |
| Version date | 30 July 2005 + |
| Version download | http://www.lindstromconsulting.com/spam-x.html?HTTP&spam-x-3.1.tar.gz + |
| Version identifier | 4.0 + |
| Version status | stable + |
| Works-with | email + |
| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. | 25 May 2012 01:32:14 + |
| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Entry + |
| EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki. | spam-x@nathanlindstrom.com + |
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| Spam-X#3 + | License of |
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| Spam-X#1 + | Person of |
| Bogofilter + , CRM114 + , DSPAM + , Seed Spambots + , Sugerplum + | Related projects |
| Spam-X#2 + | Resource of |
| Spam-X#4 + , Spam-X#5 + | Software prerequisite of |
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