Re: FN-FORUM Asking for email trouble

date posted 15th September 2002 20:19

George Hazlewood [EMAIL REMOVED] writes
>Hi guys and gals,
>
>I'm testing some allegedly good anti-spam software at the moment and I
>want to see how good it really is. Although I don't get much spam in
>general (which has always surprised me) the odd bit I do get annoys the
>crap out of me. With this in mind I've set up a test mailbox which I'd
>like people to forward their spam to. I know I'm asking for a deluge
>of crap and that's what I full expect to get.
>
>So next time you receive a spam email please forward it to:
>
[EMAIL REMOVED]
>(where it will be stored for statistical purposes)
>
>and
>
[EMAIL REMOVED]
>(which will scan it and try and decide if it is spam)
>
>If it does think it *is* spam you'll get a permanent failure message
>and the mail will be stored in a different mailbox (again for
>statistical purposes only).
>
>If everyone on this list sends just one spam email to the two above
>addressed (just once please!) I should get a good idea of how
>worthwhile this software is.
>
>I'll post the results to the list in due course.

George, would sending you a zip file (or similar) of spam e-mails in
Berkeley mailbox format for you to import or analyse statistically be
any use? Basically I've done the same thing and have a whole store of
about 150 spam messages.

I'd rather send you something like that than block up the net even more
with 150 spam messages... :-)

Let me know,

Neil
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Neil Durant
Octrix Software Ltd.
Email: [EMAIL REMOVED] Tel: 07931 164346 Fax: 08700 520159