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A spambot is a program designed to collect e-mail addresses from the internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. A spambot is a type of web crawler, that can gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations. Because e-mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write. 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. Another type of spambot surfs the web, looking for forms to submit, and it submits spam e-mails to these web forms, often with OCR technology to bypass any CAPTCHAs. There are also spambots used to post spam links to guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and any other web forms to boost search engine ranking.
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What can one do against spambots?
For a blog owner, spambots can be a huge hassle. By removing the footprints the spambots use to find your blog in the first place, you can keep them at bay. Doing so won't prevent "real" people from finding your site either.
Why do spambots exist?
Spambots are a type of advertising. Companies use them to try to attract customers. Although they are annoying, a certain percentage of customers are found by using this method.
Why do we need codes when posting messages on this website?
It is to prevent 'spambots'.
What are the missing letters in this word --yn-?
What are the missing letters in this word - vinyl****ne?: This question is a means of preventing automated form submissions by spambots.
Why can't websites automatically tell I am human?
If you're talking about the captcha thing when you sign up, it's to make sure that where-ever-you-are's severs don't get overloaded by spambots.
How do you register on metal sludge?
From what I've heard, Stevie Rachelle has closed registration due to the amount of spambots and hackers. It's a major bummer...i could have contributed greatly to the site. DICK!
What is postfix usually used for?
Postfix is an email service that can be downloaded free from open sources. Postfix offers some protection from spambots and malware, but is best used in conjunction with other antivirus software.
Is there a Email that send an Email to the whole world?
Spambots crawl the web for email addresses that have been posted publically, and then send them spam (unwanted junk) mail.Apart from this, no. It is impossible to track all of the email addresses in the world.
Why does WikiAnswers ask you to type the words in the picture EVERY time you post in the discussion area?
To keep spambots from filling up the discussion areas. If you didn't have to type them in every time, someone could do the first one manually and then turn on the bot.
What is the highest amount of IM'S received at one time?
This may not be recorded. However many spambots are known to send out incredible quantities of IMs at once, and usually receive replies. They may receive more than 1,000 replies per second!
When signing up for wolfquest what is the answer to the confirmation?
The anti-spam Q&A has a multitude of questions and various answers to prevent automated spambots from joining the community- given that there are various questions and answers, you'd be best looking at the topic that displays all Q&As. Note that when registering, the question will be randomly chosen. All questions and their answers have something to do with WolfQuest or its developers. ;)See the related link. An additional preventative means once your account has been activated, only your first post will require approval by a moderator; once approved every post thereafter does not queue for approval. Again, this was the decision made to try reducing the number of spambots seen on the forum.
What is the answer to WolfQuest when you're registering and its the last question?
The anti-spam Q&A has a multitude of questions and various answers to prevent automated spambots from joining the community- given that there are various questions and answers, you'd be best looking at the topic that displays all Q&As. Note that when registering, the question will be randomly chosen. All questions and their answers have something to do with WolfQuest or its developers. ;)See the related link. An additional preventative means once your account has been activated, only your first post will require approval by a moderator; once approved every post thereafter does not queue for approval. Again, this was the decision made to try reducing the number of spambots seen on the forum.
