[SpamCop-List] Re: Question: spamtraps and confirmed opt-in

[Jim Seymour]

Spam Hater wrote:
> Yes, theoretically, if someone subscribed a SPAMtrap address, the 
> confirmation message would end it up on the blocklist...

Hopefully a single message to the trap will not trigger a listing.

> The better question is how would someone know one of the SPAMtrap 
> addresses to subscribe in the first place?

Certain types of spamtraps are designed to be harvestable.  Thus, they 
are "hidden" in web sites in places where people don't (usually) go, but 
robots do.  *I* know how to find them, so I assume the spammers know, as 
well...

-- 
Jim Seymour.
I do not work for Spamcop, I did not write pflogsumm,
and I never wrote for PC Magazine.