Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)
On Sunday 06 December 2020 16:40:37 Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:50 -0600
>
> "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> wrote:
> > I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and ends 2
> > years ago and wondered if it could read callerID tones sent after
> > the first ring. It can so I started on a perl program that
> > initializes the modem for callerID and then compares the strings
> > received with a pair of files, one of which is called scum and
> > contains callerID name packets of folks we don't want to talk to.
> > The other is called good and looks for names of friends or anyone
> > else we like hearing from. It is actually scanned first and
> > causes the program to abort.
>
> You wouldn't care to make this software available, would you?
>
> Consider adding an option to send a fax tone instead. :-)
Make that 2 options, if a fax tone gets an answer, send a fax advising
them that sorry, but spammers have used up all the machine paper.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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