Spam test

Well, I’ve decided to run a little experiment for a little while. I’m going to put a fake Email address on my site in hopes that spammers will skim the address and harvest it and pass it around… Then, I’ll try to track how many messages get sent to myexperiment@w98.us. As soon as I reactivated my old wild98.com domain, I started getting tons of spam to all kinds of Email addresses that I haven’t used in over 5 years!! Apparently, nobody is filtering their spam lists for bouncing addresses anymore.

Update, June 1 2007: I had shut of wild98.com for nearly two full years and recently enabled it again and it’s insane to see 100+ pieces of spam show up every day to addresses that have been bouncing back to never-never-land for two years straight. You’d think there would be a bigger market for ‘clean’ Email addresses that don’t bounce back…