Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-12 Thread jdow
From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Johnson, S wrote: > > Anyone know the best way to subscribe to receive all the spam I can > > possibly get? > > A post to the "alt.test" newsgroup used to be highly effective; don't > know if it still is today. > > Subscribing to Ameritech DSL might

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-12 Thread David Brodbeck
Johnson, S wrote: Anyone know the best way to subscribe to receive all the spam I can possibly get? A post to the "alt.test" newsgroup used to be highly effective; don't know if it still is today. Subscribing to Ameritech DSL might work. ;) My [EMAIL PROTECTED] email account gets more spam tha

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Kelson
Nick Gilbert wrote: Also, I've just checked a former employee's account who hasn't worked here for a year or soa lot of the mail sitting in their mailbox isn't SPAM. So reusing an old mailbox and assuming it must all be spam I would say is a very bad idea.

RE: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Rob McEwen
>Also, I've just checked a former employee's Good points, Nick. Well, in that case, I'd go with Nick's suggestion that this is NOT a good way to build a spamtrap or bayes training corpus. But it still might be effective for "personal" use where an administrator would personally evaluate such mail

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Nick Gilbert
> Get permission to redirect e-mail from a client's former employees where > that employee's address receives a ton of spam. Also, I've just checked a former employee's account who hasn't worked here for a year or soa lot of the mail sitting in their mailbox isn't SPAM. It also included: -Mail

RE: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Rob McEwen
Nick, You make some good points which I'm sure others might need to know. In MY case, it doesn't matter because (1) I don't use bayes, (2) I'm forwarding between accounts on the SAME mail server and it happens to just copy the message file to the other folder WITHOUT adding additional headers. R

RE: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Geoff Manning
> The only way to properly forward a spam is to forward it as an RFC822 > attachment and then unattach it at the receiving end. But I > expect this > is more hassle than you wanted... If you are using Exchange and you set your account to receive the email for that user. Then you should get the e

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Nick Gilbert
> Get permission to redirect e-mail from a client's former employees where > that employee's address receives a ton of spam. This will NOT work. Receiving a spam after it has been forwarded is NOT the same as receiving the SPAM directly from the spammer. All the headers will be replaced with leg

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Craig McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnson, S wrote: | Anyone know the best way to subscribe to receive all the spam I can | possibly get? | | | Thanks A foolproof way used by the 419 eaters used to be: 1) search in google for "MUGU GUYMAN" 2) post a message in the resulting guestbook

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 15:59, Johnson, S typed: > Anyone know the best way to subscribe to receive all the spam I can > possibly get? If you get a spam that has a link to a page for opting out, opt-out a spamtrap :) Also look for invalid local addresses that get rejected.  If they will never ma

RE: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Rob McEwen
One think I have found effective: Get permission to redirect e-mail from a client's former employees where that employee's address receives a ton of spam. I've gotten such permission from my client and I redirect that person's e-mail to my own box. Normally, such boxes of former employee would e

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 7:59:20 AM, S Johnson wrote: > Anyone know the best way to subscribe to receive all the spam I can > possibly get? > Thanks IIRC the CDT study found that putting addresses on web sites was a very effective way to get them spammed: http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Denis Liard
Johnson, S a écrit : Anyone know the best way to subscribe to receive all the spam I can possibly get? Thanks Disclaimer for the disclaimer: I by no means authorized the following disclaimer, but thanks to our state government we are required to attach to all outboun

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Fred
Post your e-mail address to some public newsgroups, get yourself active on anyplace that posts live e-mail addresses, if you built it (your name everywhere) they (spammers) will come. Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. http://www.i-is.com/ 810-794-4400 Johnson, S wrote: > An