Fight the Spammers!

Building on my last post, here is another good advice and plus a simple excercise on how to add such pictures to your blog:

WWW Robots (also called wanderers, spiders, crawlers, or bots) are programs that crawl the Web continually retrieving linked pages. When a spammer's bot visits your website, blog, forum, etc, all pages and sites linked to it will be searched looking for email addresses. All you have to do is link to this page so that whenever a spammer's robot scans your page, it will be sucked into this one. These links will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value.

Doesn't it sound just anti-spam'a'licous?

Oh, and here is an explanation on how to add stuff to the sidebar (next to the obligatory blogger.com link/ad). Click template, then find (CTRL-f) the text 'This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar'. You can replace this text with something else, and add a picture by copying and pasting the text from SpamPoison site (linked above) above it, under or above the blogger add. Simple and efficient.

PS. If you have already replaced the text, you may want to search for Blogger add link (http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif) to find the right place. All things considered, there are not that many features in the Blogger template that can be adjusted. It is a fairly simple tool. Play with it, click preview and you are on good way to customize your blog. By such trial and error I customized my Voice... template some months ago. But that's something for another time.