Spamalot: A Toolkit for Consuming Spammers' Resources
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The Spamalot system uses intelligent agents to interact with spam messages and systems referenced in spam. The goal of Spamalot is to consume spam senders’ resources by engaging the spammer in an unproductive conversation or information exchange. To date two Spamalot agents have been implemented: Arthur which handles Nigerian spam and Patsy which processes spam requesting information via web forms.
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