More Spam wanted

[Quentin Campbell]

IANAL but I would counsel UK sites to think very carefully about this
before deciding to divert (even high scoring) spam to a third party for
"research".

For a start it seems a pretty clear breach of RIPA. It also seems to
leave a site open to a breach of the DPA if a forwarded message is a
false positive containing personal data. 

Of course this raises questions for UK sites as to whether they should
be forwarding probable spam to any black-listing sites, etc. I am afraid
I do not have an answer to that.  

Quentin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET] 
>Sent: 15 March 2004 00:45
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: More Spam wanted
>
>
>Forwarded from another list I am on:
>
>
>I have a unique problem, not enough spam. I am doing some research and
>analysis of spam msg content and I had been getting over 1000 
>msgs/day since
>the beginning of the month to a spam trap I have but it is 
>slowed down on
>Saturday (I wonder if it has anything to do with hotmail et al 
>being down on
>Friday). I only have 389 so far today (so prob. only 800 by 
>the end of the
>day) but I have started seeing quite a few with the habeas.com 
>copyright
>info - over 20 per day starting on the 9th, about 150 so far 
>this month.
>
>If anyone has any ideas where to sign up for spam, if you have 
>any large
>spam collections or know of any out on the net somewhere (I 
>searched for
>quite a while but couldn't find anything), I would appreciate it.
>
>I'd like to get 200,000 - 500,000 recent msgs, if I can.
>
>Unfortunately, I really am serious and thanks for any help,
>
>Rob
>
>In contact with him off the list, he requests that spams be 
>forwarded to
>jimmyjoe at software.net  I configured MS on several of my boxen 
>to forward
>High Scoring Spam to this address.  I suppose we could all 
>help him reach
>his goal of a half-million spams.
>
>Mike
>