[ILUG] [ot] guaranteed ways to get spammed

[Justin Mason]

Quick question --

I'm thinking of new ways to improve my spam filter.  One of them is to use
known methods that spammers find email addresses, and seed them with "spam
trap" addresses; once a mail arrives at one of these addresses,
identifying information from the mail is written to a database of "known
spams".

This database is then checked by users' mail filters; if a mail arrives at
a user address, and it matches a "known spam" signature from the database,
it's black-holed.

However to do this well, the "spam trap" addresses need to get into as
many spammer lists as possible; so I need good ways to get them there.

Here's ones I can think of:

  - put them on web pages in mailto: links

  - add them to WhoWhere etc.

  - post messages to USENET using those addresses in the From: line

  - reply to spam mails from those addresses
    (usually the spammer's account is shut down by that stage though)

Any other ideas?

--j.