SpamArchive.org Launched

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Posted by chrisd on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @10:00PM from the spam-is-angry-making dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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."

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So... by Markus+Landgren · 2002-11-20 22:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Do they have a mailing list I can sign up for if I want to get updated by e-mail?
1. Re:So... by stevenp · 2002-11-20 22:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  > Do they have a mailing list I can sign up for if I want to get updated by e-mail?
  
  No, but you can open a Hotmail account and receive a dayli dose of UP-TO-DATE spam message FOR FREE.
wow by gomerbud · 2002-11-20 22:03 · Score: 2, Funny

I should just gzip my mbox and send it to them. That'll give them years of research material.

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A hotmail account is just as good by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-20 22:03 · Score: 5, Funny

There was no large set of spam that could be used to test new anti-spam algorithms

Whoever wrote this obviously doesn't have a Hotmail account.
Database? by dat00ket · 2002-11-20 22:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Can't researchers just set up their own hotmail account?

Seems cheaper.
1. Re:Database? by JessLeah · 2002-11-20 22:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Ahh, but think of the fees they'd have to pay Microsoft for all that extra storage ;)
  
  After they carefully posted the new Hotmail address all over the Web, they'd blow their quota in around 12 hours. :)
  
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I can picture a future... by JessLeah · 2002-11-20 22:04 · Score: 3, Funny

...where wizened historians wearing horn-rimmed spectacles will sit, hunched over computers, studying the archives of ancient spam.

"This one mentions sex... apparently, sex was a preoccupation of the early twenty-first century..."

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Trade Spam! by Pathwalker · 2002-11-20 22:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Now that spam is so collectable, someone should start a service to let people trade it?

What will someone give me for my rare "Help fund the freedom fighters in Chechnya!" complete with numbered bank accounts to send donations to?
1. Re:Trade Spam! by Surak · 2002-11-21 00:26 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Now that spam is so collectable, someone should start a service to let people trade it?
  
  Yeah, it's called 'Gnutella'. :-P
  
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Tell everyone! by some+guy+I+know · 2002-11-20 22:09 · Score: 5, Funny

I think that they should send email out to everybody describing this great service!

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Re:Hard to get worked up about that by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-20 22:13 · Score: 1, Funny

Let's see how well it survives slashdot. That will tell us more about how good the admins are :)
Re:Who are these guys? by EmagGeek · 2002-11-20 22:15 · Score: 1, Funny

Dude, i could have registered a simlar domain and put up a comparable web page within a matter of hours. I hope they really exist. Wouldnt it be great if the submit email address was forwarded to someone's ex girlfriend? Thats the ultimate form of revenge... 1) Register domain name. 2) Put up web page advertising some kind of anti-spam database. 3) Forward all email sent to the submit address to someone you dont like. 4) Get slashdotted.
Don't forget...
5) ???
6) PROFIT!
Re:Oh i thought it was a collection.... by martin-boundary · 2002-11-20 22:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Wow! And if the site becomes popular, you could start putting up banner ads, and maybe a couple of pop-overs and pop-unders. MAKE MONEY REAL FAST! ;0)
Spam and anti-spam by zedman · 2002-11-20 22:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Would spammers try to "anti-spam" the spam archive by submitting billions of perfectly normal emails?

Ian
A project like this needs funding by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-20 22:33 · Score: 2, Funny

This worthy effort needs funding to keep it alive. I have some contacts from Nigeria who may be able to help, I will forward their details.
Are YOU a spammer? by Cheese+Cracker · 2002-11-20 22:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Take the test and find out... ;)
Geekiness by EuroChild · 2002-11-20 22:52 · Score: 2, Funny

"... a few small personal spam archives that were used..."
Geekiness has reached a new high! Or should that be low...?

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As Admiral Ackbar says... by imag0 · 2002-11-20 23:08 · Score: 4, Funny

It's a trap!!!

1) Set up story about new site accepting spam to assist in creating better anti-spam tools.
2) accept all the submissions from the teeming millions(tm) at a popular tech site or two.
3) cull all the email addresses from those duped to forward spam to you.
4) sell said email addresses to spammers.
5) PROFIT!!!!
1. Re:As Admiral Ackbar says... by Walterk · 2002-11-20 23:34 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Why don't we simply subsribe them to all those spam lists? They get their daily spam. You've done your job. The spammers have spammed. Everybody happy.
  
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Re:S-P-A-M, again and again and again and again by Alranor · 2002-11-20 23:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Please, if you're going to quote spam songs, why didn't you find this one

Lovely Spaaam! Wonderful Spaaam!
Lovely Spaaam! Wonderful Spam.

Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.

Lovely Spaaam! (Lovely Spam!)
Lovely Spaaam! (Lovely Spam!)
Lovely Spaaam!

Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaaaaam!
An old idea... by beaviz · 2002-11-21 00:16 · Score: 2, Funny

This reminds me of an idea that i've had for som etime.. spamnewsreportingforthemasses.com - A news site reporting news from spam-sources - sort of like a satirical view on spam.
"New indian health care enables you to have more lovers"
"New solution for your economical problems found"

- and throw in a hoax section too...
try spamgourmet by jqh1 · 2002-11-21 00:48 · Score: 2, Funny

auto-create disposable addresses at spamgourmet.com.

not too much work.

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Next - Spammers Use DMCA to Get SPAMS removed by semprebon · 2002-11-21 01:01 · Score: 3, Funny

I expect we'll next see Spammers using the DMCA to get their copyrighted SPAM removed from the database...

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U n i v e r s i t y D i p o l m a s by gatkinso · 2002-11-21 02:10 · Score: 3, Funny

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www.dipwomas.tw

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