Project Honeypot Is Back - Sort Of
The Project Honeypot site appears to be back in operation - with bugs.
About Category "Spam & Other Internet Pests"
Posts about unsolicited e-mail and other Internet Nastiness. Nothing to do with processed meat - that would be under Food & Drink.
The scope of this category has now been expanded to include other "Internet Pests" such as badly-behaved Web robots and other riff-raff.
Project Honeypot: Closed for Maintenance
The Project Honeypot web site is closed for maintenance - for at least a month. Smiffy is less than amused.
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Friday, 28th December 2007
No Comment Spam - Yet
Since enabling comments, no comment spam has appeared on Smiffy's Place. Could e-mail confirmation be an answer?
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Thursday, 15th March 2007MSNbot - Ban the Bot, Or Not?
MSNbot appears to have been making requests on Smiffy's Place that a reasonable Web robot should not.
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Saturday, 10th March 2007Unwelcome Visitors
Smiffy has a look at the error logs on his backup Web server and finds a whole host of unwelcome visitors, including what appears to be a neighbour.
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Friday, 9th February 2007Another Address Lost
Another smiffysplace.com email address is lost to spammers.
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Friday, 15th December 2006Spams with images: an experiment
An experiment using OCR techniques to help detect spam containing images.
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Sunday, 6th August 2006;last updated on Tuesday, 24th October 2006
Another PHP Comment-despamming technique
Another simple suggestion for reducing comment spam.
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Thursday, 4th May 2006;last updated on Tuesday, 24th October 2006
PHP Text Captcha
Suggestion for a text-based CAPTCHA method, written in Perl and adapted for PHP.
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Wednesday, 3rd May 2006;last updated on Saturday, 14th April 2007
A More Accessible Alternative to Graphical Capchas
Perl code for generating text CAPTCHAs
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Wednesday, 26th April 2006;last updated on Tuesday, 24th October 2006
