s. keeling wrote:
Pardon my bluntness, but yor scheme is just dumb. The vast majority of sender-adresses on spam emails are spoofed. Look up e-mail spoof in any online dictionary. The poor people you are displaying are probably already getting so much spam (since by necessity must exist in the spammer databases to be used as from-adresses) that they cannot imagine contacting you to get removed if they ever knew of your list in the first place.Incoming from Florian Kulzer:s. keeling wrote:Consider joining my (ad hoc) "Poison The Well" project: http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.htmlMaybe I misunderstand what you are doing, but aren't you increasing the spam load for people whose real email addresses are used/forged as the sender address by the spammers? How do you make sure not to include any addresses of legitimate users in your list?They're already being used. I receive spam addressed from keeling@spots.ab.ca, which doesn't surprise me. "My posting them ... isn't going to let any cats out of any bags that aren't already out." I'll happily remove any entry from the list when requested, and so far I've not received any such request. I'm just trying to increase the noise in their S/N ratio, that's all.
Spamcop does not list sites based on sender address, they use the hostnames of the machines the mail has passed through, tracing back to where the email entered your network. Then every host before that becomses suspect. Cross referencing several reports, they find entry-points into the global mail-system that are bad. Those hosts get listed if they keep offending. See www.spamcop.net.