[Dovecot] Getting more spam

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Thu Mar 22 17:50:59 EET 2007


Ejay Hire schrieb:
> 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
> 

to unsubscribe from spam is are really funny idea, thx for that joke *rofl
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Robert Schetterer

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