An automated process where a bot is used to search Web pages for e-mail addresses. The e-mail addressees are collected into a database that can be used by spammers to send unsolicited e-mail.
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SpamAnti Provides information about SPAM and how to fight it. Contains many useful resources including black lists of spammers and spamming domains and white lists of supporting people and ISPs, numerous related links, and FAQs.
The Spamhouse Project
An organization that works with ISPs to identify and remove spammers from the Internet.