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address harvesting analysis idea

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Sat Sep 27 13:57:19 2003

From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:00:07 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


While sitting here watching bad TV, I had a thought(tm).

Has anyone set-up a generic web-page, not linked from anywhere useful, which
autogenerates a "contact e-mail" address (like deadbeef@example.com) and
logs which IP reads what address (even using the remote IP as the username
to provide) and then waits for the address to be used for SPAM ?

Is there any use in doing this (to try to identify who is harvesting) ?

Maybe I should go and eat some food, cool my head down.

Peter


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