[Dovecot] Getting more spam

[Ejay Hire]

Sadly, I have to take exception to the suggestions to "reply to spam with
your contact address" and "sign up for free porn".  By the loosest
definitions, you are "asking" for spam when you do this.

The other suggestions, posting to bugtraq and usenet, are excellent ideas.

Also, An excellent way to get more spam is to unsubscribe from spam with the
target address.  This seems to work REALLY well.

-ejay


-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
Behalf Of Neale Pickett
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:53 PM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Cc: postmaster at webisp.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Getting more spam

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 2:01 pm, postmaster at webisp.co.uk wrote:

> What is a a spam sink, can you redirect it via MX records?

It's just a mail account that gets nothing but spam (I hope).  It seems to
be well-seeded on the spam CDs so I'm sure to get the same kind of spam that
a real person would get, just that this account gets nothing else.  I don't
know if it gets a truly accurate sampling of spam though: by now the address
may have been removed from the more expensive spam CDs, despite my efforts
to keep it secret.  Or maybe somebody's trying to poison it with
custom-crafted spam, in an attempt to throw off training data.  I kind of
doubt it but who knows.

I can't turn the firehose on to you with MX records, sorry.  For a while I
had a mail list set up that people could subscribe to, in order to get a
mirror, but that turned out to be a bad idea.  If you (or anyone else
reading this) would like to get at my spam I'll need to have some assurances
that you're not a spammer looking to somehow taint my precious river of pure
spam.

What a crazy world.

You're probably best off following Jay's suggestions.  It won't take long
for spam to start coming in.  Another suggestion is to surf a lot of porn
and sign up for as much "free porn" as you can.  Not only do you get loads
of spam, you also get to surf for porn and call it classwork!

Neale