I guess that makes sense. We've got a few accounts like that out there - we set them up, forward them into our system for evaluation, and never use them for anything else... but there's a definite 'color' to the content - meaning the spam we get there is skewed to a specifi strange attractor - all based on the marketing.
I'm working on formulating a methodology for setting up spamtraps and tuning them for specific kinds of spam - without opening them to any legitimate email. It's harder than it looks, and takes a lot of time - there's just no rushing it... so far anyway. _M | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of | Charles Frolick | Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:01 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail | | | I always figured since my hotmail profile says I'm male and | over 21 that's why it gets about 160 spam mails (that don't | fail their spam filters) per week. Don't they do the same | thing Juno mail does and pay for the service by selling the | address to 'Advertising Partners'? My 17 year old sister in | law get no adult spam to her hotmail address at all, and 99% | of mine is, that says target marketing to me. I only have | the address as a remote test account, to validate mail | routing to my domain hosting customers, and rarely even then. | If it were not a free mail account then I would say it would | be a lot of work to get it listed, but I know there are only | two ways to pay for a service, you pay or the advertisers pay. | | Chuck Frolick | ArgoNet, Inc. | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry | Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:38 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail | | | | >Gosh I'd like to know how he made that account and got it spammed so | >quickly. That knowledge would be quite a tool. | | By this: | | >| A few days ago I created a new e-mail account, and within | 24 hours I | >| had received over 25 unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, | >| otherwise known as spam. | | He means "A few days ago I created an account on Hotmail that | had once existed, but since I just created it, it's a new | E-mail account." | | Unless he was extremely active in trying to receive spam, I | can't think of any other way that it could have happened. | Or, he may have used his "poetic license" to count the number | of spams he received. | -Scott | | --- | [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
