Article posted on Apr 26
Outlook rules don’t work well enough, or catch things they shouldn’t. Filters, While lists, Black lists, Gray Lists, SPF, 
Goodmail, Badmail, What-The-Heck-Can-I-Do-To-Stop-This mail… There have been a lot of techniques to try to cutt off, or even check the growth of spam. The most common teqniques thus far however, have really focussed on the content of the email (which is immensely dynamic), or who exactly is sending it (wich, with the vast amount of senders, and even worse, infected “bot” computers, has a whole new set of issues).ÂÂ
But Unspam, a Utah company headed up by Matthew Prince and Eric Langheinrich, has not only adopted a new strategy, but they’ve locked arms with the big-boys, and are taking it to court.
Here’s the gist of it: Project Honey Pot (Which is some really cool stuff cooked up by Unspam) generates unique, spamtrap email addresses each time a web site is visited. It also records who was hitting the site when that address gets generated. So if spam shows up at the trap, they know who gathered the address. As Matthew stated in the Washington Post Article, “We’ve found that the Internet addresses of those doing the harvesting is a much smaller universe of those who are actually sending the messages, and locating [the harvesters] may give us good indicators of who out there is at the top of these spam operations.“
Matthew aknowledges that this Lawsuit will not solve the spam problem, “But if we can take two or three major spammers offline, that’s a huge victory for the Internet as a whole.”
Want to see even more coolness that Unspam is doing to help out Bloggers? Check out this gems from their 5 days of announcements around comment spammers.
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