I would say that anything other than simply letting the spam come to you is a bad idea and would risk tainting your results. Things you can do to increase the spam coming in that I can think of:
Use the email address on the public whois data. Capture all the [EMAIL PROTECTED] emails since a lot of dictionary attacks work that way. Put the spam trap up on a fairly popular website. Post using the email address to public mailing lists and usenet. OOh, and here is an important one. Make your MX record mail.domain.com. A lot of spammers have picked up on that convention and email to it with only A records defined (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]). That's all I can think of at the moment. KAM ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] How to best populate a spamtrap? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/26/2004 02:25:03 > AM: > > > Ok, unusual request - I'm looking for ways to get MORE spam sent to > > a new email account: I'm setting up a spam-trap to hopefully help > > filtering for the other accounts. Obviously, the more spam address > > lists etc. this trap is on, the better. > > > > Any ideas how to best get this address used by spammers? > > Ask for information about credit cards and other financial services > online. Visit a few dating sites. > _______________________________________________ > Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca > MIMEDefang mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang > _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang