On 1/14/2010 10:05 AM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
"David F. Skoll"<d...@roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
wbr...@e1b.org wrote:
Why shouldn't I find some honey-pot addresses and submit submit them to
subscribe?
Because, IMO, that subverts the purpose of honeypots. A honeypot
is designed as a passive spammer attractor; actively subscribing
someone is a no-no.
But actively un-subscribing not subscribed email addresses is OK
=> as far as I have heard the effect is almost identical :-)
It's not the effect that's at issue, it's the process.
The whole point of a honeypot is that you have a guarantee that no one
has ever requested that mail go to that address, so any mail sent there
is unsolicited by definition.
If you subscribe an address to a list, then *you* have solicited mail
for that address. As a result, your data is no longer reliable, because
at least some of that mail coming into that address is mail that you
requested.
OTOH, if you actively *unsubscribe* an address, then you have
specifically requested that mail *not* go there. If they turn around and
use that information to put the address on one of their lists, then
you've caught them violating your request. It's still unsolicited, so
it's valid data.
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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
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