Everyday there are so-called spam-robots (in a fact this are
programs) searching on the entire Internet, trying to find e-mail-addresses to
add to their databases. After that they can send their big numbers of unwanted
messages.
Put one or more of the buttons/banners on this page on your website. The best
place is the index-page or the most important page where spam-robots most likely
enter your site. Also you can place the code on more than one page. If you
administrate another kind of webpage like for example a blog you can also help
to fight spam with placing a link to
http://www.antispamweb.com/stop-spam.php
The result of the code is that the spam-robot will enter your site and will
find fake e-mail-addresses. This way automatically the spam-database will be
filled by their own robot with unavailable addresses. We use thousands of different domains owned by spammers. Because after some time the
addresses will be updated with new ones this addresses will be also added to the
spam database. The spammer will be forced to put your site on the list of sites
which should be ignored by the spam-bot (this will be explained further on under
"Fight Back").
Logical question: Are those spammers not able to validate an e-mail address?
Answer: They can do that only for a part and will cost a lot of time.
- They can check the existence of a domain for an e-mail address. This will
take a few seconds per check but to make life hard on the spammers we use
thousands of real domains (mostly of spammers and we update the list
frequently). Also a part is from hotmail, yahoo, aol etc. We do this because
we want it to look real for the robot. Also we do sometimes a run of addresses
without spam-domains. With all these techniques we give no chance to detect
anything.
- To check if the address actually exists on the domain is more difficult.
This is called SMTP-validation and doesn’t work always. Some mailservers don't
effectively support this feature, and other domains have a "catch-all" email
address so all mail is accepted. This is good news for our anti-spam action.
So spammers will get more and more worthless addresses which they can’t
recognize. Besides that an smtp-validation can take up to 70 seconds, so if we
can put up the spammers with thousands, maybe millions of fake addresses with
Anti Spam Web then it will cost them too much machine-time and money to filter
their databases.
- Besides that, all e-mail addresses will be generated in a random way.
Every time we will use other texts. Also we use normal text and also the
number of addresses will be different every time.
- After some time Anti Spam Web will generate new addresses for the
anti-spam-page which will be added by the spam-robot in their databases. But
the change will not happen immediately after reloading the same page where the
addresses are found. This is a technique used by some other anti-spam-pages.
This will not work because it is easy to recognize by the spam-robot if the
addresses will be different after a simple reload. With Anti Spam Web the
robot has no way to detect that it are fake addresses. But we do generate for
every website who is joining under "Fight Back" immediately a new set of
e-mail addresses. This way, we all together will flood the spammers with more
and more useless addresses until their databases will be worthless. Because it
will be too expensive and to risky for them to send enormous amounts of
messages to addresses with no result.
