McAfee: Super Spam Us!

Iria · Mar 31, 2008, 04:15 PM

The entire month of April, participants will expose themselves to spam using a Dell laptop provided by McAfee - which they will keep - sans spam protection and with a fresh email address. As the month goes by, participants will blog about their experiences on McAfee - SPAM Experiment (participants will blog in their native languages).
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Source: Tech-Ex

Matth · Mar 31, 2008, 06:15 PM

Day 0, nothing to report.

It's unclear how the emails used are going to be exposed, some ways I would choose, particularly to compare risk factors, would be:
1. Posting to newsgroups, they always say that those are trawled.
2. Website with mailto
3. Website with no email, but anything@sitename works
4. Signing up for stacks of free stuff

Unless the email addresses are already exposed in some way, I can see this being a very dull experiment.

IvanV · Mar 31, 2008, 09:30 PM

I've got an email address which only receives mail from a certain mailing list and redirects it to another address. I log in once in awhile and I haven't had a single spam message in 3 years, so, unless people really start using those addresses a lot, it really might become a rather dull experiment. Still, it may not be so, as I've heard that, of late, spammers have started sending mail to addresses they aren't sure exist, but are probable (common.nick@knownservice.com).

Mar 31, 2008, 04:15 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	McAfee: Super Spam Us! The entire month of April, participants will expose themselves to spam using a Dell laptop provided by McAfee - which they will keep - sans spam protection and with a fresh email address. As the month goes by, participants will blog about their experiences on McAfee - SPAM Experiment (participants will blog in their native languages). __________ Source: Tech-Ex

Mar 31, 2008, 06:15 PM	#2
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,426 Rep Power: 93 System Specs	Day 0, nothing to report. It's unclear how the emails used are going to be exposed, some ways I would choose, particularly to compare risk factors, would be: 1. Posting to newsgroups, they always say that those are trawled. 2. Website with mailto 3. Website with no email, but anything@sitename works 4. Signing up for stacks of free stuff Unless the email addresses are already exposed in some way, I can see this being a very dull experiment. __________________ Mary had a little lamb, Her father shot it dead Now Mary takes her lamb to school, Between two crusts of bread

Mar 31, 2008, 09:30 PM	#3
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,914 Rep Power: 333 System Specs	I've got an email address which only receives mail from a certain mailing list and redirects it to another address. I log in once in awhile and I haven't had a single spam message in 3 years, so, unless people really start using those addresses a lot, it really might become a rather dull experiment. Still, it may not be so, as I've heard that, of late, spammers have started sending mail to addresses they aren't sure exist, but are probable (common.nick@knownservice.com). __________________ If anyone has Portal 2 and hasn't played the co-op and wants to do me a favour, let me know (PM me or whatever).