On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:42:40PM -0700, Kuo, Jimmy wrote: > That would mean it hit a spammer! Rejoice!? How exactly is a university in Romania "a spammer"? I took a quick gander through my spam mbox and found zero references to pub.ro. I'll admit I don't get _every_ spam the internet sees, but I get a fair amount.[1] > Looks like the email originates at the Politehnica of Bucharest > (p5.pub.ro). [1]: there are 1498102 lines in my spam mbox. Yes, nearly 1.5 million. -rw-rw-r-- 1 sarnold sarnold 82M May 21 22:44 /tmp/spam2 I offer my spam mbox as a free resource to whoever wishes it -- whether you think a spam you got recently is unique in any way, or you wish to plot trends in spam, or you're simply curious -- just ask, and ye shall receive. It compresses down rather well: it is only 28 compressed with gzip's -9 setting, so it is obvious spammers are nothing if not repetitious. :) -- "[Attorney General] Ashcroft went to the University of Chicago Law School -- a very good law school -- but the Bill of Rights never quite reached him." -- Nat Hentoff
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