On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 06:34:01AM +0100, Niels Dettenbach via mailop wrote:
> I think it makes no real sense to run own classical spam traps just to get > info about potential spammers to block them. The amount / share of spam you > get down from that is comparably low. Beside this, spamtraps could be used > (if known to someone bad) as a tool to block valid email traffic. Although I have never found the time to do so myself, I for one would find it *interesting* to get various analysis and statistics on traffic aimed at spamtraps. But it sounds like more of an academic exercise, and to be meaningful it would need to pull in data from several sources, including such things as spamd logs. Others have mentioned setting up spamtraps to capture messages for training content filtering. I can see some value in that, but for various reasons I have focused on network level data. Not to toot my own horn agressively, but here again is the relatively short overview of the data we collect and produce here: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/badness_enumerated_by_robots.html (or with G's trackers https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2018/08/badness-enumerated-by-robots.html) All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
