On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > Today I received my first spam to the honeypot address I setup about 3 > weeks ago (bgates at colinabartlett dot com). This is an address I never > used before and sent only to the aforementioned "unsubscribe" links. > It's pretty safe to say now that unsubscribing to spam is a bad thing to > do. I'm sure we all assumed that but I wanted to be sure for myself.
It would have been more interesting if you had used different tagged addresses for each of the unsubscribes, so you could track which one was the culprit, and look for similarities in the headers of the pre- and post- unsubscribe spams to possibly identify the source. As it is you have almost no information except that one of the 21 places to which you successfully sent that address, is unscrupulous. This is like concluding that buying a used car is a bad thing because you once got a lemon, even though you can't remember who sold it to you. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
