Help fight SPAM bots

spamtricker.pl
spamtricker.pl is a perl script that generates a static HTML page filled with fake email addresses. It is more effective than addies.pl because you can link to the page it generates instead of to a CGI script. Many email harvesting robots ignore pages that are obviously CGI-generated. The disadvantage of spamtricker.pl is that you need cron permission on the server to install it correctly.

See an example generated page.
Download spamtricker.

Installation
In order to install spamtricker.pl, you should have permission to run cron on your web host (on a UNIX server). Your web host must be able to run perl as well.

Download spamtricker.zip and unzip it.

Upload spamtricker.pl to your web host.

Change the permissions to make the script executable, e.g.:

chmod 755 spamtricker.pl

Edit the file with a text editor. Change the line:

my $pageName="/home/httpd/html/hackles.org/names.html";

so that $pageName points to the name and location of the file you want to generate (make sure you have write permission for that location).

Edit your cron schedule:

crontab -e

and add an entry to run spamtricker.pl at certain intervals. For example:

0 * * * * /home/users/fred/public_html/spamtricker.pl

In this example, spamtricker.pl is located in /home/users/fred/public_html/. The script will generate a new page of fake email addresses every hour, on the hour.

If you want to learn more about cron, here is a beginner tutorial.

Link to the generated file from page(s) on your website. You can use this nifty button, if you want:

Link to Our Copy
If you don't have perl, cron, or CGI permission on your web server, or if the server is not a UNIX machine, you won't be able to install spamtricker correctly. In that case (or if you just don't feel like installing it), you can link to the generated page on our website here. It updates every hour.

License?
spamtricker.pl is a Public Domain program written by Drake Emko. Modify and/or distribute it however you want. Be my guest.