On 25 May 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I created a test for that a few years ago; http://www.dd-b.net/stpit/ > is the top of it. All email sent to the addresses on exhibit there > goes into a special folder (and is reported to spamtraps.taint.org). > > I believe I created it in October of 1999 (that's the earliest file > date I can find in the directory). The first spam arrived in August > of 2000. The most *recent* spam arrived in it December of 2001. > Only 111 pieces of spam have *ever* arrived in it, including at least > 6 test message I sent myself. > > My conclusion, so far, is that spammers do harvest the web for > addresses, but only very rarely, and they don't seem to pass the > addresses so harvested around. Do the search engines actually archive this page, though? I'd guess that the spambots start at the engines and go from there.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500