I think it was either Theo Van Dinter or Tony Svanstrom that once pointed out that any spamtrap listed on a website needs to be closely monitored, as some mailviruses for some reason will wind up extracting email addresses from websites and inadvertently subscribing them to legitimate mail lists. This occurs as a side effect of the virus using your address as a From: and a "list subscribe" address as the To:. This only works for lists which are not confirmed, but many hobbyist lists are not confirmed.
At 12:08 PM 6/6/2003 -0700, Steve Thomas wrote:
I have a spamtrap address on my home page. I put it in very small text at the bottom of the page after a bunch of whitespace. I set the font color to the same as the background, including the mailto: link. Here's what I have:
Do not send mail to this address or nasty things will happen: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I also thought about the possibility of the spammers "removing all 'spam' addresses", which is why I went with 'strap' instead of 'spamtrap'.
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