Looking for UCE

[William Park]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:05:09AM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> I am writing a little piece on the program
> SpamAssassin, a program that makes it easier to spot
> unsolicited commercial email (UCE). I have set-up
> through Rogers a child account
> (spamtrap151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org) that I will keep working for
> the duration of creating this article. Problem is how
> do I get a steady stream of that trash to test the
> software against? I have started sending "unsubscribe"
> to the UCE messages that show up in my regular e-mail
> account, in the hope that some of those @#$% will not
> only ignore my unsubscribe request but....
> 
> Question is, what else can I do to attract UCE to the
> above noted e-mail address?

That's easy.  Usenet post!

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