ProjectHoneypot.org

I found a link on Gecko's blog to Project Honeypot. Turns out it's a project to watch for, and attempt to track, spammer-run robots that scrape pages for email. I was intrigued, but a little put off by the terms of use. I did a big more digging around, and found I wasn't the only person who thought that way. However, there were some strong rebuttals from the SpamCop forums, discussion on SURBL mailing list, and from one of the principals (who also replied here).

Reassured, I signed up. It's still in the early stages, so there hasn't been a lot of spam received yet (350-odd pieces, according to the stats page on the site). Still, I'm hopeful it'll be a Good Thing.

Another approach: a Java SMTP honeypot. Huh.