Slashdot Article

[Tom Allison]

  "SpamArchive.org has just been launched. SpamArchive.org is a 
community resource that provides a database of known spam to be 
used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools. 
The goal of this project is to provide a large repository of spam 
that can be used by researchers and tool developers. In the past, 
there were a few small personal spam archives that were used. 
There was no large set of spam that could be used to test new 
anti-spam algorithms. Thus, developers could not sufficiently test 
their techniques across a range of messages. Also, the lack of a 
"standard" sample of spam made it difficult to effectively 
benchmark anti-spam tools."