Re: Using specialized honeypots to build up-to-date spam blacklists?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:19:52 MDT, Jens Knoell <jens () ing twinwave net>  said:

> As a result, spammers should have quite poisoned email databases, not to
> mention that _I_ have a nice accurate relay/spam database.

There is reason to believe that many spammers have progressed from webpage
trawling to watching the backscatter of various e-mail based worms (I know I
certainly got enough Sobig-F with what were certainly spammer e-mail addresses,
which implies that a lot of Sobig-F also went to spammer addresses with my
e-mail address on it...

> What do you think? Anything I'm overlooking there?

If there's a spammer who doesn't wash the addresses, you're looking at the
possibility of getting deluged under spam to the fake addresses....

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