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Hell yeah, that's always nice isn't it?

Sorry Mike, I thought I posted the part when I edited my Message about the Email generation script. I guess I cut to much. oops..

Yeah it does a great job, I was impressed with the addys, but it does suck some resources... Trading one resource hog for another doesn't work very well.... Maybe let it generate a static page of 500 addresses, using a cron job to update the list or do it manually...

Searching logs can find the bot, I've seen an article on how to block them.. But like teleport pro, I just turn off the obey robot text and continue taking what I want off a website.. So that clearly isn't going to work... Nor will ip blocking. Not to a dedicated spammer...

Encoders seem to easy, I would think they could read them..One php generator example is here :
Paul Gregg's Email Encoder

Obfuscators would probably be the best bet for xoops. But if it's incorporated into XOOPS the variable should be named by the admin.. Each site is completely different in how they do it. So they would have to figure out the pattern process for each site rather then just a one for all solution
for all sites..

Well I'll be one playing with it, on a javaside anyway ( not much of a php writer yet ).. It will include a .js file and I'll have to dig through the XOOPS files. ugh...

But first I got a new motherboard and processers screaming to be stuffed into my box

I've been getting them too... started a week or so ago...

Yep, I'm getting alot of that same stuff :(. It tends to get annoying rather fast. To be honest though I never thought about any link of it to XOOPS websites. Seems like maybe somebody is doing some heavy scanning.

The script works but the message on the site states: "This little script will spit out a never-ending list of fake email addresses for spambots to choke on. It will fill their memory up before they can get any real addresses off of your web site"

It's the never ending part which worries me - after executing the script I noticed it grabbed over 50% of the cpu resources on my testbox...

So maybe it's better to use a static spam bait instead.

I go to investigate...


me too are received spam mail but how i;m ever receive sam in hotmail i;m say more spam....

But now are thinking and i say... how receive mails in tw or japanesse if i can;t read japanese and never are registered in a asian country...


I go to investigate,

I too am experiencing a lot of mail from Japan China Taiwan etc.

What can be done about it

Same here, I also been getting a lot of strange mails, also from taiwan...

Herko

Yeah.. I check my logs and no hits... I get junk mail to three email address since this morning...
Here I have a Yahoo messenger email and and Admin email from mysite listed here... The other XOOPS sites I tend to use a ziplip email account and I just found some mail in there this morning too.. So I guess someone is making rounds to XOOPS sites for fresh emails..

I found another site on apache and php about trapping and identifing the harvesters. Here at Apache and PHP vs. the Spambots

My site is just a play site I doubt I get anyone over there scanning.. But I'm gonna play with it to protect my main site.. I don't want 500-5000 people screaming at me thinking I sold their addys, esp when a mission statement guarantees I don't..

I think changing the mailto tags to a link would be the best alternative, however thats gonna require more than a hack I think... The harvesters can pull websites too, so if they pull the websites here they can use that list to extract email addys from the other XOOPS sites..

I was gonna slingshot 30,000 emails back to sender, but pulled back, hell some spammer is probably is just using the h8h.com as a cover to catch the slack... I hate to spam some guy for no reason... But if I catch him in my logs he toast.

It is something that needs to be address tho.. The above links can get us started until a better solution can be presented...

I'm just glad (sorry) I'm not the only one..

YES, I have been getting the same junk mail also, I thought it may have been when i registered on the Chinese XOOPS Support site because that was the only site of it's type that I have been to, I can not read it so I dont know who has sent it other than that same address.