Re: [exim] Laying out a spamtrap

Marcin Krol wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is slightly OT, but only slightly I believe - I connected
> statistical filter to Exim, but am lacking spam stream to feed it.
>
> I have published spamtrap addr on some webpages and posted the web and
> e-mail addresses to test Usenet newsgroups, over a month has passed and
> still no spam is catched there whatsoever, while regular addresses are
> filled with spam.

I have a spamtrap to rbl system configured and i feed spamtrap addresses
via homepages.. This works very well. Some addresses gets hit by spam
within a few minutes or even seconds.


>
> So hereby I post a practical question: how exactly an admin can
> effectively propagate spamtrap addresses to spammers?
>

The spamtrapaddresses should be located on some "high" traffic websites.
Where spamharvesters are most likely to find them fast.

Newsgroups seems to be a very slow option.


/Lasse