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royster · 12-06-2011, 04:37 AM

I have registered Halfpast with Project Honey Pot. You can read about its virtues here or on the page below.
As you can see on "Rejected Registrants", we constantly have spammers trying to join the forum. A couple have slipped through and spammed the site. We also get "spiders" which are web-bots that pull information from the site, but potentially also lift e-mail addresses for whatever reasons...marketing or spying. One IP in particular I have monitored and its activities do not make sense, in some ways, so I'm looking into what is available to preserve the site's integrity. Project Honey Pot, in conjunction with StopArticlSpam are ways I can offer more protection to Halfpast members. My Administrator board as well has an IP tracker, which I use to determine where an IP address is coming from.
(IP=Internet Protocol) ["What Is An IP Number? What Is My IP Address - Shows Your IP Address ]
ALL websites get spiders and spammers.
About Project Honey Pot

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install 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 we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.
To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website.
We collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. We 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.
Additionally, we will periodically collate the email messages we receive and share the resulting corpus with anti-spam developers and researchers. The data participants in Project Honey Pot will help to build the next generation of anti-spam software.
Project Honey Pot was created by Unspam Technologies, Inc — an anti-spam company with the singular mission of helping design and enforce effective anti-spam laws. We are always looking to partner with top software developers and enforcement authorities. If there is some way we can help you fight spam, please don't hesitate to contact us.
The Web's Largest Community Tracking Online Fraud & Abuse | Project Honey Pot
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Anything to do with the internet is potentially dangerous, and a liberal-minded site like Halfpast may indeed be closely monitored by political groups and government agencies. (We seem to generate a lot of interest from Russia, Germany, Israel and the Ukraine). I can't do anything about that, but I can help make the site safer in regards to member's personal e-mail addresses and information to marketers and questionable organisations.
In the past, spammers' accounts were deleted, along with their advertisements or political messages. I now filter registrants through IP number websites to insure that potential members have no internet history of spam or spying. All political views are welcome as long as they are presented reasonably and amiably (though Halfpast is primarily a Spiritual website).
Even Project Honey Pot is no guarantee that it, itself, isn't a front organisation. As I've had to struggle with learning about computers and Administrator duties in a fairly rapid time, I take chances in hopes of erring on the side of caution, with the intention of protecting members as much as I am able to.

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royster Family Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 5,479	I have registered Halfpast with Project Honey Pot. You can read about its virtues here or on the page below. As you can see on "Rejected Registrants", we constantly have spammers trying to join the forum. A couple have slipped through and spammed the site. We also get "spiders" which are web-bots that pull information from the site, but potentially also lift e-mail addresses for whatever reasons...marketing or spying. One IP in particular I have monitored and its activities do not make sense, in some ways, so I'm looking into what is available to preserve the site's integrity. Project Honey Pot, in conjunction with StopArticlSpam are ways I can offer more protection to Halfpast members. My Administrator board as well has an IP tracker, which I use to determine where an IP address is coming from. (IP=Internet Protocol) ["What Is An IP Number? What Is My IP Address - Shows Your IP Address ] ALL websites get spiders and spammers. About Project Honey Pot Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install 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 we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it. To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website. We collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. We 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. Additionally, we will periodically collate the email messages we receive and share the resulting corpus with anti-spam developers and researchers. The data participants in Project Honey Pot will help to build the next generation of anti-spam software. Project Honey Pot was created by Unspam Technologies, Inc — an anti-spam company with the singular mission of helping design and enforce effective anti-spam laws. We are always looking to partner with top software developers and enforcement authorities. If there is some way we can help you fight spam, please don't hesitate to contact us. The Web's Largest Community Tracking Online Fraud & Abuse \| Project Honey Pot ___________ Anything to do with the internet is potentially dangerous, and a liberal-minded site like Halfpast may indeed be closely monitored by political groups and government agencies. (We seem to generate a lot of interest from Russia, Germany, Israel and the Ukraine). I can't do anything about that, but I can help make the site safer in regards to member's personal e-mail addresses and information to marketers and questionable organisations. In the past, spammers' accounts were deleted, along with their advertisements or political messages. I now filter registrants through IP number websites to insure that potential members have no internet history of spam or spying. All political views are welcome as long as they are presented reasonably and amiably (though Halfpast is primarily a Spiritual website). Even Project Honey Pot is no guarantee that it, itself, isn't a front organisation. As I've had to struggle with learning about computers and Administrator duties in a fairly rapid time, I take chances in hopes of erring on the side of caution, with the intention of protecting members as much as I am able to.