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Beware of email address harvesters. In September 2002 a single new email address was added to the Contacts page in this site. Within 4 days spam arrived for the new address (all in Chinese!). This was simple and sobering proof that spammers use harvesters to automatically crawl through the Internet looking for victim email addresses on web pages. There is a school of thought that honeypot web pages filled with junk email addresses can poison the harvested lists, making them less effective and frustrating the spammers. The effectiveness of poisoning is highly debatable, but out of curiosity I created this Active Server Page which generates from one to two thousand randomly generated email addresses each time it is loaded. To make the addresses look a little less random they are composed from letters chosen so they approximate their frequency in English text.
This page is written as an old fashioned ASP page (pre ASP.NET). If you want a copy to see how it works and perhaps make your own version, the page source as plain text is available HERE.
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