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[ILUG] Spam Trap?

[ILUG] Spam Trap?

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Wed Jan 16 02:02:49 GMT 2002


Scott Wunsch said:
> 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 ;-).
> Oh, and speaking of Vipul's Razor, SpamAssassin is capable of querying it
> for you.

yep.  More spamtraps are always welcome BTW -- I have an entire domain
you can set spamtraps to forward to, if you like.

BTW -- spamtraps are very groovy -- they take the idea behind spam (send
identical messages to a huge number of recipients) and use it against
the spammers, martial arts style ;)

--j.




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