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What is the “Ignore Junk” on some of Santas (and other peoples) Web pages?

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What is the “Ignore Junk” on some of Santas (and other peoples) Web pages?

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As you probably know, there are people out there on the Internet who send spam (unsolicited email, some nasty). In fact they send lots of it to Santa Claus (yes, they will indeed just get coal in their stockings). The “ignore junk” is essentially “spammer bait”. It generates bogus email addresses for the spammers to harvest to send spam to. Giving them bogus ones discourages them from harvesting email addresses using that method in the future.

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