>   "SpamArchive.org has just been launched. SpamArchive.org is a 
> community resource that provides a database of known spam to be 
> used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools. 
> The goal of this project is to provide a large repository of spam 
> that can be used by researchers and tool developers. In the past, 
> there were a few small personal spam archives that were used. 
> There was no large set of spam that could be used to test new 
> anti-spam algorithms. Thus, developers could not sufficiently test 
> their techniques across a range of messages. Also, the lack of a 
> "standard" sample of spam made it difficult to effectively 
> benchmark anti-spam tools."

<conspiracy theory mode ON>

Consider this -- if this were a front for a bunch on enterprising spammers,
it might be a wonderful source of __valid__ addresses of all the poor folks
who send in their spam!

It could happen... :-)

<conspiracy theory mode OFF>


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