On Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:47 PM, Justin Mason wrote: > > This came accross the freshmeat.net mailing list today: > > http://spam-die.sourceforge.net/
> It's an old idea -- another, really well-established one is "wpoison" > -- as used at jmason.org: http://jmason.org/moreinfo.whtml . This > produces lots of fake addresses like > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > which don't exist, obviously. ;) *BUT* what if someone decides to register that domain? With fewer and fewer "good" domain names available, people register variations of the name they want... this may be a reason why I never really liked the idea of email poison -- it creates email addresses with domains that may potentially exist (some day). Besides, I'm sure the more sophisticated address-harvest tools discard addresses with invalid domain names. The difference between spam-die and wpoison is, spam-die creates domains which will probably never be registered (but again, this works by assumption) -- it uses [EMAIL PROTECTED], whereas wpoison uses dictword+letter@dictword+letter.com I tested a few of the wpoison-generated domains from your page, and a few of them actually do exist! Someone else is getting your spam. :-p > Nowadays, a better trick is to mix in a few "real" addresses, which > feed directly to "spamassassin -r". Assuming the spammers spam them > as part of a mass run, they'll add themselves immediately to Razor, > DCC and Pyzor that way ;) Definately. -- Jay Swackhamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nebularis Inc <http://www.nebularis.com> Tel: 1-613-843-9358 Fax: 1-613-825-5960 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
