By the way, a couple of general announcements about spam:
1) I'm getting more and more inquiries from people who are worried
about harvesting from Mail-Archive. Three just today! That puts
spam back up to enemy #1.
2) I believe at least one spammer is monitoring gossip, based on some
private (and nearly incoherent) mail I received. The good news is
he or she sounded frustrated!
3) All addresses have been obfuscated for years. Newer ones
are much more heavily obfuscated. That doesn't mean spambots
don't try.
4) California passed more anti-spam laws last month. I'm more than
happy to support enforcement actions from our Governator.
5) I've been reading up on the latest anti-spam weaponry.
Crazy stuff. In particular, I see that one people do
is use to generate poison email addresses on the fly - which
encode the IP of the harvesting spambot. Clever.
These emails are "valid" in that they lead to a teergrub - an MTA
that recognizes these addresses and tries to slow down the
spammers MTA as much as possible. But it also seems that this
would be a decent way to create a spambot black hole list based on
IP. And because HTTP isn't usually relayed like SMTP is, this
might actually work. Is anyone already doing this? Any experts
want to comment?
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