[Charlug] Is anyone wanting spamtraps?

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 09:30:33 Bob Evans wrote:
> I'm still confused. Are you saying that you determine what "spam" is,
> then you send it to some central repository somewhere?

No. I have an address on my box that receives nothing but spam. The address is 
one I created for the purpose and stuck in a link on a website somewhere in a 
way that humans' attention is not drawn to it. Aliases to the address are 
nonexistent addresses I've seen used in spamming attempts. Some are names of 
email programs; others are spliced names (e.g. I've seen mail sent to an 
address "pert" on another system; "pert" is the last four letters of 
someone's name, probably a result of a spammer running a list of names 
through a buggy sorting program).

Pierre