tony sarendal wrote: > 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 >
I feed it to spamassassin. I don't do anything with IPs because most of them get dynamically reallocated between clean and infected computers. I reckon you shouldn't worry about From address because it gets forged all the time. This is very common. Therefore, it would be a bit silly for someone to rely on the From field. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B
