Do you want to help prevent spam?

 

Project Honey Pot is a distributed network of decoy web pages website owners can include on their sites in order to gather information about robots, crawlers, and spiders. They collate data on harvesters, spammers, dictionary attackers, and comment spammers, then make that data available to members so they can protect their websites and inboxes.

Xact I.T. are now members of Project Honey Pot. 

 

The Project Honey Pot system allows the installation of email 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 they can tell that the messages are spam and also the exact moment when the address was harvested with the IP address that gathered it.

 

To participate in the project, you only need to install the software somewhere on your website. They handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate.

Project Honey Pot also work with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is critical for finding those breaking the law.

Visit Project Honey Pot to find out more about how you can help to prevent spam.