SPAM Trap

[RW]

On Friday 23 December 2005 17:12, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I have been reading about SPAM Traps. Exactly what is a SPAM Trap? I
> noticed that it seems to be used in conjunction with blacklisting
> organizations.
>
> How would one go about setting up one?

AFAIK it's just a set of email accounts that are not used by real people, so 
anything that ends up in them can be fed into some kind of spam-learning 
software such as DCC, vipal's razor etc. Try googling those terms with 
spamtrap.


I believe Brightmail makes extensive use of spamtraps too.