At 1:58 PM +0100 5/22/02, Steve Linford wrote:
>
>A good way to foil these is to create 5 or 10 spamtraps in your router, like this for 
>example:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap

Mightn't it be better to have common but unused names instead?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = spamtrap


>
>SIMS will answer "250 OK" for these spamtraps

But only if the dictionary attack actually gets around to "frodo123", right? It seems 
to me that more common names are more likely to be harvested.



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