Heh--that reminds of something Brightmail has been doing--they've been posting apparently OT posts to various newsgroups with their honeypot addresses with the intention of getting harvested by spammers. A bit of a bass ackwards approach to spam fighting-- spamming in order to fight spam!!
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Rose, Bobby wrote: > What's really funny is how SA has been tagging McAfee's bulk mailing > about their SpamKiller product as Spam. "Tired of spam? Get the email > you want and nothing else. McAfee.com SpamKiller stops spam cold!" > > Geez... Spam everybody with messages about stopping spam. Now there's > a lesson that hasn't been learned. Or maybe they don't consider their > bulk advertising as Spam. > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
