Translations:Manual:Combating spam/93/en

Typically, the pages contain one or more unique, randomised and hidden email addresses or links, intended not for your human visitors but for spambots. Each time the page is served, the embedded addresses are automatically changed, allowing individual pieces of spam to be directly and conclusively matched to the IP address of bots which harvested the addresses from your sites. The IP address which the bot used to view your site is automatically submitted to the operators of the blacklist service. Often a link to a fake 'comment' or 'guest book' is also hidden as a trap to bots which post spam to web forms. See Honeypot (computing).