[Scspamcop] Re: setting up a spamtrap

[Chris Wright]

Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting wrote:
> Andrzej Filip wrote:
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>> Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting wrote:
>>> Andrzej Filip wrote:
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>>>> I have seen a few lists sending "requests to confirm subscription" in a
>>>> single "non English" language.
>>> Sorry, but I don't understand the importance of this.
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>> Would you *recognize* "subscription verification request" sent to you
>> *only* in Chinese/Polish/...? :-)
>> Some *LAME* list maintainers are fully capable to do it.
> 
> The language of the message or recognizing the content is moot. It's
> backscatter aka spam sent to a spamtrap, as I already described.

I think the important comment about this was snipped, but I believe
someone said that some spammers use 'lists' to poison spamtraps.

So you would see a non-english request come into your spamtrap, and
report it as spam, which is what the spammer wants.
That then discredits your spam trap.

*i think*