Just a little experiment
December 17th, 2008
I always read how quickly email addresses published on websites receive spam, but I never actually tried. Well, here’s one that’s been set up for that purpose only: gryawebsf@fablemail.com – see, I even made it a mailto: link for the spammers’ convenience. Now I will monitor the address and once the spam starts coming in, I’ll tell you how long it took. It’s also a nice way to test the spam detection engine I’m using on an experimental mailserver I set up.
Update: Finally… it took longer than expected, but today (Jan. 7th) at 1:29pm I finally got my first spam email. Well actually it was caught by the spam filter, but it was the first time the address was used.
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1. Modern Princess | January 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Yeah, most spam these days are caught by spam filters, especially if you have either a really good service and/or you run it through a couple of spam filters. For example, most ‘domain name’ emails can be run through a spam filter that can be configured in the control panel, and then the webmail spam filter (ie gmail).
Because of that, it just isn’t a big deal for me to use my email on sites.
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