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SpamArchive.org Launched

Posted by chrisd on 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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  1. So... by Markus+Landgren · · 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 · · 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.

  2. A hotmail account is just as good by Anonymous Coward · · 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.
  3. Database? by dat00ket · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Seems cheaper.

    1. Re:Database? by JessLeah · · 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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      Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
  4. I can picture a future... by JessLeah · · 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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    Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
  5. Trade Spam! by Pathwalker · · 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 · · 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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      My journal has hot /. gossip.
  6. Tell everyone! by some+guy+I+know · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
  7. Re:Oh i thought it was a collection.... by martin-boundary · · 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)

  8. Spam and anti-spam by zedman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Ian

  9. As Admiral Ackbar says... by imag0 · · 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 · · 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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      "If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
  10. Re:S-P-A-M, again and again and again and again by Alranor · · 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!

  11. Next - Spammers Use DMCA to Get SPAMS removed by semprebon · · 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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    Andrew Semprebon EQ Systems Inc.
  12. U n i v e r s i t y D i p o l m a s by gatkinso · · Score: 3, Funny


    Get your now! You gate to betta rife. Moa pay, wok wess.

    www.dipwomas.tw

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    I am very small, utmostly microscopic.