Re: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] spamming in the name of sience?

[Paul Wouters <]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Sabri Berisha wrote:

> What I want to do basically comes down to a fake-spamrun. I want to
> register a domain, setup a small website and spam as much as a can for
> it. Then I will do the following:

Ahh, it was you :-)

Don't do it. I can tell you, since we had that happen to us just this
last friday: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/ueff/example.txt

> - measure the number of hits
> - measure the number of abusecomplaints (they end up in my mailbox
>   anyway ;)
> - measure the number of removerequests
> - measure any other cool stuff I can come up with

I don't know the size of the spam run. I do know roughly:
- 180.000 extra hits on our website
- 3500 bounces
- 150 removeme's
- 4 spamcop reports
- 0 new customers :)
 
I still need to count the complaints, but you're welcome to have a copy
of my spamattack mailbox :)

> So, what's the opinion on this list about this? Your replies are welcome
> in private as this list is *anti*-spam ;)

Don't do it :)

Paul 
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> What would it take to get state-of-the-art IPsec into the mainline
> kernel development process?

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