On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, John Rudd wrote: > The technique I've wondered about using (and I wonder how ethical it is)
Tell you what, I'll consider you to be an aggressive RBL person, and set up a similar thing on my web site that's a CNAME for your domain. How happy would that make you? > So, essentially, any time a spammer harvested that address and used it, > they'd be directly reporting themselves. I don't really have any statistics to back this up, but I have the strong impression that most spammers don't harvest their own lists. I do know that there is a lot of selling/"renting" of address lists going on, very often to people who've never been involved in electronic commerce before. That is, somebody's harvesting those addresses, but somebody else who bought a list of them will be sending the mail. That second somebody might be two or three times removed from the original harvest and has no idea where the addresses came from. The harvester already has his money, and is busy grabbing more addresses to sell. Thus I suspect that using spamtrap addresses is like arresting the junkies while the cartel goes right on smuggling in the drugs. Ever worse, it's plausible to think that randomly generated spamtrap addresses may simply give the harvesters bigger lists to sell. You're not going to discourage them that way. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
