Bill, Thanks for the thoughts, I appreciate it. Is there a best way to get spam for research purposes? At one time I got to put mx records on a bunch of domains, but I no longer have that capability. How do folks to it in 2026?
-rick On Friday, June 26th, 2026 at 12:55 PM, Bill Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-06-26 at 14:48:18 UTC-0400 (Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:48:18 +0000) > Rick Wesson <[email protected]> > is rumored to have said: > > > Hello, > > > > I've been doing evaluations of various clustering algorthims. I'd like > > to do some testing to see if I can improve SA speed by adding some > > clustering capabilities. Is there a goto corpus that you use for > > testing and baseline. > > > > I've attached a draft of some of my research using malware corpus and > > I'd like to begin working on doing the same with spam. > > As far as I know, there's no shareable corpus of email that is useful > for spam research. The problems are that there is a very loose consensus > on what is or is not spam, what spam and non-spam people get has huge > variability, and personally identifying information can be a significant > clue in identifying spam. > > The corpora that I've used for research have all been built from the > mail flows of the people backing the research. > > > > -- > Bill Cole > [email protected] or [email protected] > (AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com > addresses) > Please keep discussion mailing list replies *on-list* > Not Currently Available For Hire >
