On 14/06/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:31:49AM -0700, John Draper wrote:
> > Mike Spenard wrote:
> >
> > >What are some thoughts on purposely getting a spam trap email
> > >address acquired by spammers and the best way to do so.
> >
> > It is hard to do initially, unless you want to spend a lot of time
> > signing up for things over the web... In my case, I have a very
> > good spam trap. But I host about 60 Email users and I changed
> > everyone's Email address (with their cooperation), and removed
> > them from any mailing lists they might have joined. Evventually,
> > almost all of these accounts have Pure spam coming in.
> >
> > Next I forwarded each of them to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and
> > presto... I have a 100% spam source I can feed directly into my
> > spam reporting engine. Most of these addresses has taken years
> > to accumulate this spam. This is by far the best way...
> >
>
> we used to have 'spammers ? spam this [EMAIL PROTECTED]' at the
> bottom of each page so that crawlers would spam it. also, we had a
> few systems accounts, not supposed to receive mail, act as spam
> traps which proved to be quite efficient.
>
>
So what do you guys do with the email hitting the spam traps ?
My email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been used as From address
by spammers, does that mean that I can't send you guys emails ?
Or do you do something else like teach spamassassin and record source
IP addresses ?
/Tony
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Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP/Unix
-= The scorpion replied,
"I couldn't help it, it's my nature" =-
