[plug] [link] Please start using this

[Peter J. Nicol]

Is there any evidence at all that this works?  ie, that spammers will respond in
the way that the email suggest?  Are there any success stories?

Sounds like a huge waste of time and resources to me.  Like a spammer cares if an
email address is wrong.  They don't run mail servers, they steal them, or use
throwaway accounts on free servers.

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.fdns.net]
>  Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:15 PM
>  To: Perth Linux User Group
>  Subject: [plug] [link] Please start using this
>
>
>
>      http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/
>
>      Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner. Its purpose is to feed
>      realistic and enticing, but totally useless or hazardous data to
>      wandering address harvesters such as EmailSiphon, Cherry Picker,
>      etc. The idea is to so contaminate spammers' databases as to
>      require that they be discarded, or at least that all data
>      retrieved from your site (including actual email addresses) be
>      removed.
>
>      Sugarplum employs a combination of Apache's mod_rewrite URL
>      rewriting rules and perl code. It combines several anti-spambot
>      tactics, includling fictitious (but RFC822-compliant) email address
>      poisoning, injection with the addresses of known spammers (let them
>      all spam each other), deterministic output, and "teergrube"
>      spamtrap addressing.
>
>      Sugarplum tries to be very difficult to detect automatically,
>      leaving no signature characteristics in its output, and may be
>      grafted in at any point in a webserver's document tree, even
>      passing itself off as a static HTML file. It can optionally operate
>      deterministically, producing the same output on many requests of
>      the same URL, making it difficult to detect by comparison of
>      multiple HTTP requests.
>
>      Sugarplum is free software, distributed under terms of the GPL.
>
>  Cheers; Leon
>