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[ILUG] Spam Trap?

[ILUG] Spam Trap?

Scott Wunsch ilug at tracking.wunsch.org
Tue Jan 15 16:06:09 GMT 2002


On Tue, 15-Jan-2002 at 11:44:42 -0000, Barry Redmond wrote:

> mail servers.  I've been wondering lately about using a spam trap of 
> some kind.  You know, a dummy address for which you assume all 
> received mail is spam and then block all similar incoming to any 
> destination.

http://razor.sourceforge.net/ (Vipul's Razor)

Not only did somebody already think of this, they're actually doing it on a
distributed basis ;-).

(Actually, the first place I think I saw this was linux.com.  I was
browsing through their HTML source, and found an HTML comment containing an
email address next to some text saying "don't send email to this address,
or you will be permanently ignored".)

Oh, and speaking of Vipul's Razor, SpamAssassin is capable of querying it
for you.

-- 
Take care,
Scott \\'unsch

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