Program purpose: ------------------ killspam generates a totally random page which feeds bogus email addresses to spiders that collect email addresses from web sites. This page consists of: - a META exclusion tag for well behaved robots and spiders - a random (funny!) headline of 3-5 random words - 2-6 random sentences of 2-12 words each. Each sentence contains one random (bogus) email address. - Another 2-6 random sentences with no links at all. - Another 2-6 random sentences of 2-12 words each. Each of these contains one random hyperlink. All links point back to this program. How does it work? ------------------ Once in a while unsolicited "spiders" (aka robots or crawlers) will travel your web site and follow all links on all pages. If a page contains an email address, the spiders add it to their database, thereby making this user part of a huge email address collection. These collections will then be sold and/or used for sending unsolicited spam emails. This is where killspam steps in. It generates pages with bogus email addresses (mostly .com and .net, but all others, too). Lots of bogus addresses will render email collections useless. Also, most spammers use "relay" email servers. These servers allow anonymous users to send emails. With lots of bogus addresses webmasters of relay email servers will receive lots of bounces which will encourage them to switch relaying off. No relaying, no spam. killspam outputs 2-6 links back to itself which means that each time a spider reads the page it will add another 2-6 links to killspam to its URL database. That way it will waste quite some time at your web site just for the purpose of grabbing lots of junk email addresses.