<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Good idea. Will post to some usenet and see how it goes.<br><br>The mail server and domain are temporary. What we do is use a ddns based mx and put a temporary mail server behind the firewall to receive spam.<br><br>Hong<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Pete Ryland <pdr@pdr.cx><br>To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug@gllug.org.uk><br>Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 5:28:23 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Gllug] [OT] Asking to be spammed?<br><br><div>On 21/12/06, Hong Chyr <hongchyr@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br>> This is a bit off topic, but I'm currently testing a firewall with spam<br>> filter services, and is wondering if there's
a site where I can trigger a<br>> deluge of spam my way, so to test the effectiveness of the spam filter? Is<br>> there such as service? or is this concept of spam filter testing completely<br>> wrong?<br><br>Getting put on spammers' lists on purpose is not a good idea. At uni,<br>we had a list that we subscribed people to who didn't turn up to the<br>Unibar on Thursday nights. It was called the shit-list because the<br>list address was subscribed to all sorts of crap, from recipe<br>discussion lists to doctor's lists to car mag lists. Without that<br>address ever sending a mail, it was incidentally put on quite a lot of<br>spammer's lists too. 15 years on and that address is still a special<br>case in the sendmail rules and burns about 1GB of bandwidth a month.<br>So if you don't want a permanent burden, don't attract spammers at<br>all. Ever.<br><br>Pete<br>-- <br>Gllug mailing
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