Just a test - no need to reply

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John B. Good
spam@firstinternetservices.com

John B. Good wrote:

> Just a test - no need to reply
>

Dozens of groups with the word test in their titles, and you post a test
here.
--
Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."

my guess is that he wants to attract spam bots to that email address, so
that he can train spamassasin on the mailbox. i have another friend who
does that

Two Ravens wrote:
> John B. Good wrote:
>
>
>>Just a test - no need to reply
>>
>
>
> Dozens of groups with the word test in their titles, and you post a test
> here.

"slacker" <user@host.com> wrote in message
news:4233e594$0$5597$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au ...
> my guess is that he wants to attract spam bots to that email address, so
> that he can train spamassasin on the mailbox. i have another friend who
> does that

Indeedy

Also pass through razor, pyzor, dcc and spamcop

slacker (user@host.com) writes:
> my guess is that he wants to attract spam bots to that email address, so
> that he can train spamassasin on the mailbox. i have another friend who
> does that
>
Spammers don't harvest from test newsgroups?

Besides, nobody needs to issue an empty message to get spam. Posting will
do it, so they might as well actually post a message of substance. Reply
to a message, helping some in the process, or posting a question or comment.

"But I worry that it's not working". So you wait and see what happens.

But of course, test newsgroups are great, since you can play with all
kinds of things without bothering anyone. Some of the problems we
see are because people hesitate to simply play with the software,
"I'm afraid of doing something wrong" as a ten year old once told
me, but the best way is to try things and learn from the mistakes.
Using test newsgroups let people make those mistakes, without bothering
people (which is likely the basis of their worry) and likely nobody
will even notice those mistakes. After all, surely nobody spends their
time reading test newsgroups.

Michael


> Two Ravens wrote:
>> John B. Good wrote:
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>>>Just a test - no need to reply
>>>
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>> Dozens of groups with the word test in their titles, and you post a test
>> here.