Subj : Block vs Bait
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 08:58 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
  Re: Block vs Bait
  By: Digital Man to Time Warrior on Sun Sep 25 2005 12:16 am

 > To: Time Warrior
 > Re: Block vs Bait By: Time Warrior to Digital Man on Sat Sep 24 2005
 > 11:23 am

 >  > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

 >  > To: Digital Man What is the difference between the spamblock
 >  > list and spam bait list?

 > The SPAM block list is a list IP addresses that will be refused mail session
 > with your mail server. This list is automatically updated whenever your mail
 > server receives mail *for* any address in your SPAM bait list.

 > The SPAM bait list contains e-mail addresses that you know only spammers wou
 > send to (e.g. webmaster@yourdomain.com). Or often, these addresses are poste
 > as "bait" in newsgroups or embedded in web-sites where spammers will find th
 > when they mine for addresses.

 > This is one of the popular methods for detecting spammers and SPAM message
 > content.

Ah, me thinks I get it! Anyone, and i mean anyone, sending an email to the 
spam bait addresses gets auto-shitcanned in the spam block list. Which i'm 
guessing is why sysop@bbs.ext and other things are used as valid addresses 
instead.

This is why none of my emails at any of my domains ever have webmaster@ or 
abuse@ or anything like that because those are well known targets for spammer 
because in most cases, they DO exist and spammers know this.

Pretty neat!

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