Re: Questions about auto-submitting from spam traps (and trust) (fwd)

[Duane V. <du...@io...>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:20:04PM -0400, Frank Tobin wrote:
> Justin Shore, on 2003-09-26, wrote:
> 
> > That makes sense.  One question I've always had but never asked is how 
> > much of the message does Pyzor use?  Is it just the body, subject + body, 
> > or everything? 
> 
> Soley the body.
> 
> > I wonder if it would be possible to have an online stats system that
> > would list by userid that submitters stats such as total submitted,
> > total spam/ham, daily totals, messages rejected (if they are), etc..  
> > Would that be a possible future project?
> 
> It's certainly possible, currently I could simply track by IP, but the
> logfiles are pretty *huge*.  Such stats would be easily manipulable.

Well hang on, if I were a spammer I'd be trying my level best to
find out how my messages are getting into the server.  Right now
debugging a list of "millions of working email addresses" is as
daunting as it should be for these er.. characters.  The less they
know the better.

Now, emailing stats back to subscribers might be useful...

duane