Information AboutSpambots |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SPAMBOT | |
| network-related software | |
| spamming | |
|
A number of legislators in the U.S. are reported to be devising laws that would outlaw the spambot. A number of programs and approaches have been devised to foil spambots. One such technique is known as Address Munging , in which an e-mail address is deliberately modified so that a human reader (and/or human-controlled Web Browser ) can Decode it but a spambot cannot. This has led to the evolution of sophisticated spambots that can recover e-mail addresses from character strings that appear to be munged. The term spambot is sometimes used in reference to a program designed to prevent Spam from reaching the subscribers of an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Such programs are more often called e-mail blockers or Filters . Occasionally, such a blocker may inadvertently prevent a legitimate e-mail message from reaching a subscriber. This can be prevented by allowing each subscriber to generate a Whitelist , or a list of specific e-mail addresses the blocker should let pass. SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
|
|