3 posts tagged “anti-spam”

Matthew Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress and left in late 2005 to found a new startup Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com & Akismet anti-spam.

You can find links to his articles and podcasts at Matthew Mullenweg

Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.

This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

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Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website.

Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site.

If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/about_us.php

To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website.