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.
