Well, it’s about time! I know all of us hate spam, especially if it is through the email. When you check your email, don’t you just hate the tons of spam that flows in? You know, those emails telling you to buy some sort of medical drug which can enhance one of your body parts….ya, like I need it! And out of 100 emails, only 1 or 2 are legitimate emails. The rest are just spam but you still need to check all of them in case you miss an important email. Arrggghhh….you have to spend precious minutes or even hours going through the damn emails everyday and it’s a big waste of time and effort.

But for webmasters, you can help fight back. How? Well, you can just add one link to your website and it’s this URL. Don’t worry, it’s just a webpage which has a large number of invalid email addresses. Since a lot of spammers harvest email addresses from email bots. These bots are just like Search Engine bots but what they do is to collect email address from webpages and they do this by following links. Usually, webpages have email addresses in them, like those contact us page and so on. So if an email harvesting bot follows that link, it will come to that page and they will start harvesting those invalid emails. The webpage is sort of like an infinite loop since it links back to itself. The best part is that the email addresses will change everytime the webpage is accessed. So the email harvesting bot is actually harvesting a infinite number of invalid email addresses! Wuhahaha, take that assholes! I would love to see the look on the spammers face when all his/her effort has gone down the drain and they may even need to ditch their mailing list. Won’t it be just great to know that spammers are to waste resources and effort by sending emails to invalid addresses? You know, exactly what they are doing to us?

However, I see a potential problem. The link itself. Sooner or later, spammers will figure out that this webpage has such invalid email addresses and it won’t be difficult for them to add into their email harvesting bot the URL to avoid. Perhaps, a better idea would be a script which someone can run on their webpage and the script would generate these superfluous email addresses for the email bots. This way, we can have a huge cluster of websites which can really destroy the usefulness of the email harvesting bot. Imagine, having tons and tons of invalid email addresses for the spammers to send their spam to and no way for them to really know which site is causing the problems for them? I like it! I like it very much.