Honeytraps and garbage removal

[Andy Smith]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:26:02PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> At 01:15 PM 4/15/03, Peter Bishop wrote:
> 
> >I have installed a shared wordlist bogofilter on our mailserver.
> >+ I have a "honeytrap" account (i.e. a non-person) that is known to
> >spammers and hence provides a continuous stream of "pure" spam that
> >is fed direct into the shared spamlist.db. Users can provide non-spam
> >examples for goodllist.db via another dummy account (usually their false
> >positives).
> 
> I like your idea of the "honeytrap" account.  Clever :-)

If such a thing is generally useful to other people, maybe we could
help out.  We currently process around 90,000 spam emails a day in
the course of other research.  Would a bogofilter worldlist built
from (some portion of[1]) that be any use to other people?

Andy

[1] Available CPU will probably limit this.