Re: testing corpus?

Bill,

Thanks for the thoughts, I appreciate it. Is there a best way to get spam f=
or research purposes? At one time I got to put mx records on a bunch of dom=
ains, but I no longer have that capability. How do folks to it in 2026?

-rick

On Friday, June 26th, 2026 at 12:55 PM, Bill Cole <sausers-20150205@billmai=
l.scconsult.com> wrote:

> On 2026-06-26 at 14:48:18 UTC-0400 (Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:48:18 +0000)
> Rick Wesson <[email protected]>
> is rumored to have said:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been doing evaluations of various clustering algorthims. I'd like
> > to do some testing to see if I can improve SA speed by adding some
> > clustering capabilities. Is there a goto corpus that you use for
> > testing and baseline.
> >
> > I've attached a draft of some of my research using malware corpus and
> > I'd like to begin working on doing the same with spam.
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> As far as I know, there's no shareable corpus of email that is useful
> for spam research. The problems are that there is a very loose consensus
> on what is or is not spam, what spam and non-spam people get has huge
> variability, and personally identifying information can be a significant
> clue in identifying spam.
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> The corpora that I've used for research have all been built from the
> mail flows of the people backing the research.
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