[rt.blitzed.org #2597] Helping you with a spam-trap

Sat Dec 24 18:53:36 2005: Request 2597 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by [email protected]
       Queue: web
     Subject: Helping you with a spam-trap
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: http://rt.blitzed.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2597 >


Dear Sirs,

I'd like to help you, by establishing a spamtrap on my domains. My
initial idea would be "dictionary" names @ mydomain, which I can
forward to you, to consider. E.g.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

e.g. during last 12hours I've received 17 such emails
hermes:/var/log# fgrep [email protected] mail.info |wc -l
17
and this address was never used on my servers.

I have several domains which are operating since 1990 or so and are
(unfortunately) in every spammer's list. Those include

hyper.net (established 1992)
hyper.gr

Some of my older email addresses (those I haven't scrapped yet due
to signal/noise going near zero) receive about 5000 spams/day of
which about 100-200 manage to get through 5 different RBL filters.

My mail servers are Debian Linux and FreeBSD, with sendmail. The
one I plan to use for this is running latest Debian (gets auto-patched
daily) Linux and should be reasonably secure.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year from Greece,

Dimitris Hatzopoulos