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Re: honeypots as spam traps


From: "Ian Baker" <ibaker () codecutters org>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:02:18 -0000

Andy,
    In my case, it's fed straight into the email server's dictionary.

Extracting the domains & URLs that are (by definition) required by a spammer
to advertise can then be analyses and scored, just like any other
word/phrase.

It's quite effective (even if I did find my first three false positives this
morning.. out of 18873 emails. 144 of which could *only* be determined to be
spam because they were sent to the honeypot..)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Streule" <andy.streule () lythamhigh lancs sch uk>
To: <honeypots () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:12 PM
Subject: honeypots as spam traps


just wondering what people using honeypots as spam traps do with their
collected info.


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