Tired of getting your inbox spammed? Maybe yes since you’re reading this … Even though I don’t present you a anti-spam solution, I do present you a strike-back strategy. The name DynASR is an acronym which means Dynamic Anti-Spam Revolution. The idea came up while I visited this page aka the original ASR. The dynamic word tells you that the list is dynamically generated, thus is harder to blacklist the addresses. The idea from ASR is:
Spam bots, spiders, crawlers, Harvesters, whatever technical name you want to give them, have one function, to crawl the web looking for email addresses. They go to a homepage, and then follow all the links from that page entering any email address they find on these pages into a huge database, which then they sell to advertisers, or use to send you emails for the latest in breast enlargement or credit card deals. However although we may not be able to stop them doing this alone, we can sure as heck give them a hard time doing it! Thats where the Anti-Spam Revolution (ASR) is needed.
This page may look like a huge list of strange email addresses but in actual fact it is a spam spiders nightmare. when a spider enters this site it follows the same link you did to get here. it then thinks it is in spider food heaven finding a page of thousands of emails, however what it doesnt know is, obvioulsy, these email addresses are useless and fake. it gobbles up thousands of fake addresses, and then reaches the link at the end of the page, which like a good little bot, it follows, and guess what? yup, it starts all over again, and ends up stuck in this little loop, there is no link off the page, so it has no where to go. Eventually it crashes or gives up.
The spammers end up with thousands of useless email addresses, when they send out their emails they will get thousands of returned mail causing them to have to manually go into the database and remove all these fake addresses, or force them to stop using a spider and do it the old fashioned way of manually getting the email addresses. We wont stop them getting the email addresses, but we sure wont go down without a fight!
What can you do? It’s rather simple: either link your site to this page:
http://saltwaterc.net/sw-dynasr/index.php
which also serves as online demo, or download your own copy of DynASR and install it to your own server. If you’re asking yourself, the page from above even with a high PageRank, won’t influence my blog, so I have nothing to win from the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) point of view. The reasons: the script creates a loop for a harvester and it doesn’t contain many links, plus the fact that none point to my homepage. The only links are the ASR page and the self target in order to make the harvester choke itself with the provided junk. Yes, junk. Eye for eye … a spammer fills with crap my inbox … I fill with crap his database.
Latest release: DynASR v0.11
Check the Changelog.txt file in order to see what’s different. The hash sums in order to check the integrity of the file are provided below:
saltwater@file-server:~$ md5sum DynASR-0.11.tar.gz
870002d49ac4d2041b2fa369f9ef4799 DynASR-0.11.tar.gz
saltwater@file-server:~$ sha1sum DynASR-0.11.tar.gz
d3e9c3278f2c35a6377a6ffd97349de698ed795a DynASR-0.11.tar.gz
DynASR is free software, released under the GNU GPL v2.0 License. The distribution archive contains the documentation for installing DynASR to your own host. The documentation also contains details about customizing the application’s behaviour.
