I have what may seem like a humerous question, at first. I was wondering if anyone knew of a mailing list that receives only spam.. The purpose would be to treat this list as a corpus for training the Bayesian filters.
Right now, I am having a hard time convincing our 1,000 or so users to put the time and effort into classifying email as spam. The next best this, I figure, is to get novel spam pre-classified from an outside source.
I have found a great website http://www.spamarchive.org/ dedicated to collecting spam, but currently you have to download the 5,000 messages per day via FTP and then get them into iMail. A mailing list would be so much easier.
What do you guys think? If no one knows of anything like this, I might be willing to set something up. I'm sure many of us have old unused email accounts that receive nothing but spam. It should not be hard to set those to auto-forward to a particular address.
-Chase
Network and Systems Engineer
Bullhorn, Inc.
p. 617.464.2440 ex 119
m. 617.512.0326
www.bullhornstaffing.com
