".....if *anyone* sends *anything* to that address it is unsolicited mail - spam, so that IP sender is blacklisted and placed in a DNSBL as well because there is no possible legitimate reason to send to that address....
ït is not really true. If a spammer sends to a list of addresses and among them is a spamtrap address a user might respond to that list and so you'd be blocking a legit ip or domain ! cheers 2014-12-02 20:04 GMT-03:00 Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net>: > On 03/12/2014 03:07, Matthias Leisi wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 1, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote: >> > This is assuming of course that your instantly blocking everything from >> a sender that happens to email a honeypot. >> >> Right. That i the *point* of a honeypot. The only thing going to a >> honeypot is going to be a spammer. > > > Not necessarily. At dnswl.org, we use spamtraps as one input source to > determine the trustworthiness of an IP - to list (and at what score) or if > not to list. > > A single spamtrap hit over an extended period of time for a system with a > high magnitude does not say much. And it's different if it's an ISP > mailserver or an "email marketing provider". > > > > > I see no difference, if I never have, never will, use say > deletet...@ausics.net and its used as a trap address (actually used as > examples in some of my pages/blog etc), *anyone* who sends to that address, > has got it via means of scraping, it clearly means it was taken from a > webpage, or a mailing list archive, if *anyone* sends *anything* to that > address it is unsolicited mail - spam, so that IP sender is blacklisted and > placed in a DNSBL as well because there is no possible legitimate reason to > send to that address, and reputation, trust - my arse, again, no valid or > legitimate reason to send to that trap address, its sole purpose in life is > to catch those who spam, if one person sees it, they *will* be doing it to > many many many others. > > Noel > > PS > > (for the spammers, since we know you scum read this list - that example is > only 1 of 7 trap addresses over a couple of domains I use, exempt it, I'll > still catch you out) > > >
