Spam Poison

If you haven't noticed, there's a small image that says SPAM POISON. Basically, this icon links to the Spam Poison site that, in turn, has links leading to an unlimited amount of junk email addresses. Because of the Spam Poison site, if a bot tries to crawl this site looking for email addresses, that bot will deep link into an unlimited supply of junk email addresses. This effectively poisons any list that the bot is attempting to create. Thus, if any email addresses get posted on this blog, rest assured that the presence of the Spam Poison banner effectively makes any email list they attempt to create from this blog into a worthless piece of junk. If you don't see the Spam Poison banner, then that site is not protected from email culling and you should think twice before posting your full email address.

If you want to protect your web site from being crawled for email addresses, simply click on the Spam Poison image and follow the instructions on how to implement it on your site. This might be worthwhile also placing it onto your corporate web site on pages that contain corporate email addresses. I have followed their links on their site and they are part of the Spam Daily site which appears to be a legitimate organization. The idea they have implemented is an excellent technique to combat email culling that is so prevalent by spam houses today.