On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:29:17PM +0100, 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 ?
Well, spamd works by source IP. Assuming a sane network setup, it
shouldn't reject too much legitimate mail.
Joachim
