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Real-time Spam Map

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-cool-idea dept.

iggychaos writes "Mailinator, the free, temporary email service gets a lot of spam (over a million emails a day). And with another cool application of Google maps, the site now shows a Spam Map indicating what sites are spamming mailinator in (nearly) real time. It's oddly addictive to poke around and see where the spam is actually coming from."

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  1. Not all that accurate by yotto · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Subject: Um, the brochure said it was GREEN here
    IP address: 1.2.3.4
    DNS Name: greenland.aintgreen.com
    Location: Greenland
    Emails: lots

    Something tells me they need to rethink their algorithm.

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  2. Re:No Australian spammers! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey, it's the Mercator cylindrical projection... Don't blame it on Google.