created honeypot programs which masquerade as these abusable resources in order to discover the activities of spammers. Open relay honeypots include Jackpot (http://jackpot.uk.net/), written in Java , and smtpot.py (http://llama.whoi.edu/smtpot.py), written in Python . The Bubblegum Proxypot (http://www.proxypot.org/) is an open proxy honeypot (or proxypot.) An email address that is not