Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-15 Thread Joachim Schipper
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 a

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-15 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
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

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-14 Thread tony sarendal
On 14/06/06, Spruell, Darren-Perot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 ? > > If you're not making the connection,

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-14 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 ? If you're not making the connection, you don't understand how spamd(8) works. Your MX receives mail for your

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-14 Thread tony sarendal
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 s

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-14 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
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

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-14 Thread tony sarendal
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 t

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-14 Thread veins
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

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-14 Thread John Draper
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

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:42:02PM -0700, Kian Mohageri wrote: > Maybe you're really looking for something like spamd: > > http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/ > > Much more effective than a trap e-mail address in my opinion? Spamd can be configured to use a 'trap' e-mail address... See under 'GRAYTRAP

Re: Spam Trapping

2006-06-01 Thread Kian Mohageri
Maybe you're really looking for something like spamd: http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/ Much more effective than a trap e-mail address in my opinion? Kian On 6/1/06, Mike Spenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are some thoughts on purposely getting a spam trap email > address acquired by spamm

Spam Trapping

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Spenard
What are some thoughts on purposely getting a spam trap email address acquired by spammers and the best way to do so. 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 w