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Short version: Food4Spam has two functions. First it generates a list of fake email adresses for easy distribution on websites, weblogs or in newsgroups. This way you will help to pollute the spammers email-databases with adresses that do not work. Second it sports an easy way to hide your email adresses on webpages by encapsulating them in a JavaScript to make it harder for spammers to find.
Long version: The basic idea for this program comes from the fact that spammers get the email adresses for their spam-mailings by spidering the web and searching on websites and in newsgroups for new addresses.
So why don't give them what they want? We simply generate a list of syntax-correct fakemail addresses and distribute this list over the web on homepages, in weblogs and in newsgroups. This way we will pollute the spammers databases with email adresses that do not work and the whole spam-system will get a major hiccup. You can read more about this in the German Schockwellenreiter, they started to call for peoples polluting the spam-databases back in 2002.
The Food4Spam fake email address generator v0.4
By now Food4Spam can generate a plain text-list or a HTML-list for any number of addresses you want to generate. You can even specify the seperator between the addresses. Anyway it's a good idea to only generate lists of 10-20 addresses, otherwise the huge amount of email addresses on one place may indicate the spam-bots that this is only a fake.
Food4Spam tries to be intelligent (in a way) and generates emails in various forms. The lenghts differ, the characters "aeiou" are used more often than other characters. Sometimes there are dots (.) or hyphens (-) in the email address, and sometimes you also get a "hotmail.com" address.
All you have to do after generating a list is to paste it into a website and upload it to your homepage or weblog (have a look at http://www.raum-im-netz.de/themm bottom left side for an example of such a list).
Future versions of this application will maybe allow to generate and to upload a html file containing this address-list to simply automatically include the file in your homepage.
The Food4Spam address protector v0.4
The second purpose of Food4Spam, the hiding of email adresses, makes it easier for you to provide your email address on web pages or in weblogs, but encode your address in a form that makes it hard for spammers to read. This is done by a "by-character" encoding of the HTML link, or even better, by encapsulating the encoded link in an JavaScript.
Food4Spam does not in any way distribute data over the net if you do not want it to!
It just generates a list of fake email adresses. You can completely control what and when you distribute them to the net. There is no security issue for you. If you don't belive me you can download the sourcecode here and read every single line of code. No tricks!
Download Food4Spam at Sourceforge
Go to the Food4Spam project page at Sourceforge to ask questions, send in a feature request or a bug report, or maybe start a discussion in our forum. We also have a German forum.
Food4Spam is open source and freeware under the MIT license, anyway you are more than welcome so send in a donation and help supporting further development. You can easily donate by visiting this page:
http://order.kagi.com/?1VQ1
This application is very young so the documentation is what you are reading now, but I will enhance all this documentation / website stuff later when this application grows up over time. Anyway this also depends on the feedback of the end user: Your feedback is always appreciated!
v0.4 - June 21, 2003
Added an option to only get a short-version link text when encapsulating the fake email addresses in HTML, e.g. "cabi@vraoxhqn.ma" will be displayed as "cabi". Further we catched and eliminated some minor bugs.
v0.3 - June 15, 2003
Food4Spam can now encode your email address for safer distribution on webpages. Further it now has a nifty application icon.
v0.2 - June 14, 2003
Major change of concept. Food4Spam now only creates fake email adresses.
v0.1 - June 09, 2003
Initial release.
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