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...
i.e. Is it best to use only a defunct address for trapping, or will intentionally getting a new trap address spammed only increase ones spam input and be detrimental overall. I would like to hear feedback based on experience and not just theory of course =)
This would work, but it won't catch the older spam proxies out there. Some of these proxies have existed for years, prolly because they have not shown up on the ISP's radar.
If it's not detrimental overall how feasible would it be to construct a service that automated the (counter intuitive) act getting an email address acquired by as many spammers as possible?
If you find out, I would also like to know how to do this. John
