If you have a good whitelist this won't bother you. Why make it obvious that the addresses are spamtrap ones? Just hide a comment somewhere on the homepage that only harvesters will see but not people who browse your web site ( unless they read the html source ).
I have been hit where a spammer has used one of our addresses as a reply_to address. No worries. spamd doesn't even break a sweat. The mail doesn't ever hit our server and the only servers that have the problem are the mail servers that believe the forged reply to address as they bang their heads trying to deliver the bounced mails. They should try spamd :-) g'day Mark On 05/07/07, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:07:55AM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > Now I wonder if it would be a good idea to put that list of spamtrap > > addresses on a web page for the address slurpers to find and use, so I > > can detect spam senders early and either treat them to 24 hours at the > > time in the tar pit or have them move on to the next target. > > > > The only downside to this that I can see is that occasionally somebody > > naive and innocent sending backscatter (bounces of undeliverable spam) > > would be tarpitted for a while. > > > > Does anybody else here have views or relevant experience they want to > > share? > > I thought about this a while back, and I found a weakness. Now, I > haven't seen this used, but it's trivially possible. Here's the deal: > > You publish spamtrap addresses, and of course you make them easily > recognizable as such so you don't trap real people. Spammers spend a > very small amount of effort and harvest spamtrap addresses *on purpose* > and use them as sender addresses (joe job). The result being, of course, > that you blacklist significant valid portions of the internet. Am I > wrong here? > > -- > Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | > http://metabug.org/ > http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG > Federation
