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Spam Archive opening FTP service December 4

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-would-you-save-this-crap dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "The FTP archives for spamarchive.org will be opening on December 4, according to this Wired article. But there already appear to be some archives available." I tried saving my spam for awhile just for giggles, but seeing that file grow to 100+ megs made me so angry I had to delete it. Currently getting ~200 spam every day, and now often they attach images so they are 100k+. Yay Internet!

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  1. Re:Sigh by m0i · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And even whitelists are not 100% reliable: new viruses/trojans may collect emails from addressbooks and send spam with the From field altered to appear like a friend of yours (likely to be in your addressbook..). Now even your friends will spam you! (or so it will seem).
    As long as there's no M(ail)T(ransport)P(rotocol) which get rid of the overly S(implistic), without true authentication of the sender, we will get spam because email is public in the first place.
    Maybe something like email cookies would be a first step in trying to establish a pseudo-authentication system.

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  2. Only 200? by nurb432 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I get that much on my PERSONAL account, and i also 'manage' spam for a 10K user base..

    Somedays, ALL I get done is dealing with spam.

    Too bad we cant bill them back for my salary, and lost network resources, like we can do for un-requested faxes.

    And arrest them for sending porn with out verifying a person's age. Around here, you would be either fined ( bookstore ) or arrested ( individual ) for trying such a stunt in 'real life'.

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  3. Spammers attack archives with copyright threats by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 5, Interesting
    As reported in Ask Slashdot (but it didn't make it to the front page), the Great Spam Archive (est. about 3 years ago) has just received a threat of legal action from a spammer over, of all things, copyright infringement.

    Rich.

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  4. Re:Sigh by berzerke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...If we can get the response rate from spam to drop from a quarter of one percent to maybe a tenth of that, we may start to get close to a position where spam actually becomes uneconomic. It's only by achieving that that we'll see the current volume of spam reduced...



    I've been kicking around an idea to reduce the response rate, but don't know how to implement it properly (yet!). My idea is to setup what *APPEARS* to be an open relay. Spammer will try to send their garbage through it, but NOTHING will actually get delivered. That's gotta cut the response rate way down (to zero), plus saving a lot inboxes. If the response rate goes low enough, it becomes uneconomical to send spam and the spammers find a new line of work.



    Anyone have any pointers for a Postfix installation?