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RE: OT: Spam traps (was: Forwarders)

2004-01-12 13:33:26
Hallam-Baker, Phillip [pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com] wrote:
Such mails should never go to spam trap addresses.  By
definition, no legitimate mails whatsoever should ever go to
spam trap addresses.  That's why spam traps are so effective.

OK say I want to cause moveon.org or elect-bush-2004.com to be
blacklisted. 

All I need to do is to use a web crawler to scan the web for addresses
and then enter each one in turn into the 'signup request' web form.
There are bound to be some spam traps in the mix.

There are gangs of politically motivated hackers who spend their time
arranging exactly this type of thing.

I never said that a single spam trapped spam should cause the sending IP 
address to be blacklisted.  I know of no blacklists that are this strict.

But if someone entered larger quantities of spam trap addresses into such 
'signup request' web forms, I can't help it.  At least, there'd be a chance to 
track the abuser who entered all these trap addresses (the web form's web 
server knows the IP address of the person who entered the addresses).

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