On 14/06/06, Spruell, Darren-Perot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > 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 ?
>
> spamd. It works on the IP address level. Spam trap addresses function such
> that offending source addresses are auto-blacklisted (for a configurable
> length of time.)
>
> In a sense, it is tied to the email address of the To: header, not From:
> as
> you'd speculated.
I know how spamd works, but here we had more creative setups, the To:
address
of the spam emails were just used to route them to the spam trap. What point
would
it be to identify the spam with the To: header if all email for those
addresses end up
in a spam trap anyway ?
So if people route specific unused email addresses to spam traps,
what do they actually do with the received emails to reduce spam
to legitimate addresses ?
/T
--
Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP/Unix
-= The scorpion replied,
"I couldn't help it, it's my nature" =-
