Looking for UCE

Stephen W. Clarke stephenc-wtWqQT8woy8 at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 30 15:23:33 UTC 2006


You could also post your desired email address on a high traffic website
in both plain text and as a mailto link. This will help you get found by
the spider email harvesters.

Just a thought.

Stephen




> 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?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Colin McGregor
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