[Gllug] [OT] Asking to be spammed?

[Pete Ryland]

On 21/12/06, Hong Chyr <hongchyr at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This is a bit off topic, but I'm currently testing a firewall with spam
> filter services, and is wondering if there's a site where I can trigger a
> deluge of spam my way, so to test the effectiveness of the spam filter? Is
> there such as service? or is this concept of spam filter testing completely
> wrong?

Getting put on spammers' lists on purpose is not a good idea.  At uni,
we had a list that we subscribed people to who didn't turn up to the
Unibar on Thursday nights.  It was called the shit-list because the
list address was subscribed to all sorts of crap, from recipe
discussion lists to doctor's lists to car mag lists.  Without that
address ever sending a mail, it was incidentally put on quite a lot of
spammer's lists too.  15 years on and that address is still a special
case in the sendmail rules and burns about 1GB of bandwidth a month.
So if you don't want a permanent burden, don't attract spammers at
all.  Ever.

Pete
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