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Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

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Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail server it was so bad).

I run four Tor relays and don't get spammed. I also obfuscate my email by formatting it in a readable, non-standard way that can't be spammed automatically without parsing (eg someone [at] example dot com).

I actually did exactly that.

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#42
post #36

Spam training set: http://untroubled.org/spam/ More good ones here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4743996/publicly-availabl...

Hopping on the top comment to provide a more serious answer than some below.. http://www.mailbait.info/

Mailbait looks helpful for a project of mine, thank you for sharing!

I used GenSpam [1] for my thesis on spam filtering, but it doesn't seem to be as comprehensive as others out there, plus using a corpus instead of 'live' email might not be quite what the original poster wants.

[1] http://www.benmedlock.co.uk/genspam.html

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

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post #36

Spam training set: http://untroubled.org/spam/ More good ones here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4743996/publicly-availabl...

Hopping on the top comment to provide a more serious answer than some below.. http://www.mailbait.info/

Thanks for this, best answer on the thread.

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

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post #4

Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail server it was so bad).

You kind of guys are still the hope for humanity. I do not understand all the technology completely. But i get the gist for what you are doing. Than you very much.
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