[Scspamcop] Re: setting up a spamtrap

[Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting]

Andrzej Filip wrote:
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> Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting wrote:
>> Technomage Hawke wrote:
>>> what is the proceedure for setting up a spamtrap 
>> Wikipedia explains it well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamtrap
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>> It doesn't really help to reduce spam. It just makes it easier for you
>> to report offenders, since all email coming to a spamtrap can only be spam.
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> Not exactly. Some spammers are capable to "trick" mailing list like
> software to send invitations/confirmations to spam-traps especially
> "for *public* record" spam-traps.

Perhaps. But then such a "trick" would only be a "misdirected bounce" 
(or an automated reply to forged sender), which is therefore spam 
according to SpamCop.