Hello Justin, Thursday, May 6, 2004, 9:53:37 PM, you wrote:
JM> It would definitely be worthwhile, IMO. There's still a bit of an JM> open question as to how much of these remove links *work* and how JM> much confirm the addr -- it's not 100% either way -- but it'd catch JM> the ones that do keep confirmed addrs... Interestingly, those that "honor" this faked unsubscribe will avoid the spamtrap. Those that insist on sending email to the faked unsubscriber will get what they deserve. JM> BTW the spamtraps.taint.org traps report to Pyzor, DCC, and a few JM> proxy testing systems too ;) Thanks for that information. It'll therefore not only benefit my systems' Bayes, but will also benefit the network checks within SA. JM> (However, we don't use them for mass-checks any more, because we JM> nowadays have more than enough hand-verified spam from the various JM> people's corpora.) Understood. My corpus is nearing 100k spam, and I trim it to 4 months each month. Bob Menschel
