The problem with this is that once you subscribe it to anything you've muddied the waters a bit about whether content to that address is spam or not. If your specific use is such that you don't discriminate then you've got a reasonable solution... but for truly pure spam, you need to find ways for the spammers to pick you up - in their typical ways - but without your prompting. That takes time and effort - and occasionally luck. The luckiest you can get is for a dictionary search to hit your spam trap and pump it into one of the "millions" CDs... Once that happens a few times you'll start getting good traffic that was truly never solicited. Another lucky method is to have the address picked off of a web page when some spammer is trolling...
_M | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kami Razvan | Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:30 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail | | | I always thought it would make a lot of sense to have an | Internal SpamCop address. | | An address that we can use in Declude so any e-mail that is | sent to that address is automatically added to a blacklist | address for background deletion. | | If such addresses is then easily advertised on a couple of | sites that are willing to give you a million dollars or add | to your anatomical parts then effectively we can have a | preemptive notice easily. Since the address is not used | elsewhere there is no way a legitimate email comes to it. | | This can be a very fast and almost no CPU processing system & | be called SPAMTrap | | Regards, | Kami | | | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Madscientist | Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:10 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail | | | 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. | | --- | [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.
