90% of spammers are just kiddies discovering the world, thinking they will get tons of money in 2 days from sending messages everywhere. What I can say. No experience at all, so they just grab an spider, create or buy a list of emails and start crawling.

For spiders, a very good way of stopping them is a bot trap. A nice article I like from Neil Gunton. Good examples that you can just copy and run (well … some coding surely will be good to adapt them.)

http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap

What I like from it is the objective: take away the waste of resources, that is, not only protect the pages, but ensure the spider does not kill the site.

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