Spam-Bots are little programs that crawl the world wide web (and the usenet) to collect e-mail addresses, so their owners can send e-mails about PENIS ENLARGEMENT, MAKE-MONEY-FAST schemes or natural remedies to cancer/impotence/whatever to the innocent owners of the e-mail addresses.
It's not hard to do something against that. If you run a website, you can include (invisible) links to lists with names and e-mail addresses of people that don't exist. These bot-traps are ideal to spam the spam-lists...
The program advertised here is able to fool bots and humans alike. It generates lists with arbitrary e-mail addresses, but hey, it also links to them from arbitrary (first&last) names that look like natural names (of John Doe, average North American person)...
For an example of what these names and e-mail links look like, check out this list.
Perverting the idea of programs that can generate arbitrary e-mail addresses, this little program will generate a list with natural-sounding names and arbitrary addresses -- you can even fool a human spam-bot!
The natural names are generated from a US database (included), thus they only sound natural in the realm of the western (English-speaking) world. The distribution of first/last names approximates the actual distribution in the list.
I suggest you use this to generate lists for your website. Do not use as cgi application, as the program is rather large (in order to keep it in just one file) and eats up CPU time while loading. Use as Fast-CGI (needs to be adapted) would be permittable.
The script is distributed under the GNU General Public License. (C) 2003, David Reitter.
