Spambot Beware
Welcome to the "Spambot Beware" site. Here you will find
information on how to avoid, detect, and harass spambots.
Spambots are programs that extract email addresses from web pages, which
are then used as targets for spam.
Sections
- Background and Information
This section explains what a spambot is, how it works,
and gives all the background material you will need to use
the information on this site.
- Detection
This section details how you can detect if spambots
have (or still are) visiting your web pages, and stealing
email addresses from them.
- Avoidance
This section explains various ways to hide email addresses from
spambots, while still making them available to human viewers.
- Harassment
This section explains some tricks you can use to
annoy, confuse, and otherwise harasss spambots who come calling
at your site.
- Glossary of Spam Related Terms
Written by Greg Sabino Mullane (greg
"at" turnstep.com) in 1999. Last major update December 14, 2003.
