[Gllug] spam harvesting

[Martin A. Brooks]

sheridan wrote:

> To train a spam filter you have to have spam to throw at it. While it 
> may be possible to just wait for spam to come along it's usually more 
> convenient to throw a bunch now while you're in the mood for training 
> it, than later when it gets in the way of what you will want to do then. 


Training a spam filter with someone else's spam isn't entirely 
effective.  Going out and deliberately attracting more spam just wastes 
bandwidth.
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