Re: Where to get spam?

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

This is a very interesting question.  Why do you need spam from 2006/2007, SPAM TTL is <24, most SPAM engines will not 
detect SPAM > 30 days old.  I have researched this problem for over a long period of time, most anti-spam products out 
there will have issues detecting any type of spam over 2 weeks old, since keeping signature/heuristic bases that huge 
will slow down the performance of the product, which is an interesting question in of itself.  Why.. 


You are better off working with a university or local school that retains their mail for some period of time

Mark 

At 04:16 PM 2/17/2007, secbasics () dusty ece cmu edu wrote:
That was almost perfect. Unfortunately since I am correlating spam data against other traffic types, I need the spam to 
be from 2006/2007, and the most recent 
one there is 2005.

Thanks anyway though.

Aaron

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:23:39PM +1100, David West wrote:
> Try the SpamAssassin public mail corpus..
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/publiccorpus/
>
> David West
>
> On 2/16/07, secbasics () dusty ece cmu edu <secbasics () dusty ece cmu edu> wrote:
> > Does anyone know organizations which give away spam captures? I mean, 
> > obviously I will get lots of spam just from posting on this list (;)) but 
> > I would like to
> > get more to analyze. It seems like every couple months some student does a 
> > project which requires spam but they always have to start from ground 
> > zero. Isn't
> > there anywhere which gives spam to security researchers?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Aaron