Another data-point to consider. If you have "successfully" unsubscribed from one spammer. Was there a sudden increase in spam from one or more parties after that initial event?
I've heard (comments on /.) that the initial spammer may "honor" your unsubscribe request, but then sell your email address at a higher rate to other spammers, given that they know it's a "real" address. > -----Original Message----- > From: bill parducci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Spam Honeypot > > > a good place to start is to post an 'uninteresting' note to a > variety of USENET lists using a 'clean' e-mail address. (alt.sex > is one i have used in the past, but the more you spread around > the more likely you are going to get hits). this gets the real > bottom feeders since anyone using that address in bulk e-mails > will have done so via dredging. note: DON'T use this address for > anything else because anything it receives is unsolicited and is > therefore spam by definition. > > with a second address go to sites that manage a lot of groups > (like yahoo groups) and sign up for a list that has 'free' stuff > in it. let the account build up mail for a couple of weeks (they > will be selling your e-mail address to numerous places as quickly > as possible). then as you start gettting mail from the various > mailing lists (and there will be MANY in a relatively short > period of time), try to unsubscribe from each. if after 72 hours > (my preference) you receive any mail from that list (or you get a > bounce/404/etc. in the unsubscribe attempt) consider it spam. of > course, this will take some work because you need to keep a list > of senders that have been notified of your disinterest (and > when). might make for a nice honeypot mailet one of these days. > > there are other ways, however if you are diligent with these two > you will start harvesting a lot of muck off the wire in no time! :o) > > that said, the other option is to let someone like spamhaus.org, > et al. do it (or volunteer to help out) and just rbl filter > levraging the techniques they have devised. james already > supports this out of the box. > > b > > > Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote: > > Would you care to elaborate on those "other ways"? > > > > > > R. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
