Gamed? What do you mean exactly by gamed?

Brian

Brian:

Here's one way. I send SPAM to make it look like it is coming from a location. It then gets picked up by mailinator. This is the issue with blacklists in genteral.

I don't get it. What does it matter? Are you familiar with how Mailinator works? I'm a Mailinator (I did the spam map). Just trying to understand exactly what your point is. Email me directly if you'd like to - my contact info is at http://myvogonpoetry.com/wp/?p=15

Brian

If you click on the links in the google map, you'll find that one of them seems to be made up - it will have the IP address of 1.2.3.4 and a made up DNS name, like too.much.beer.com or greenland.aintgreen.com. I've seen this "fake" entry show up in Greenland, Hungary, the middle of the Atlantic, the middle of the Pacific, each time with different Subject lines. I presume that this is someone at mailinator, rather than someone outside "gaming" the system.

Well, have a peek at the SPAM map now. There's Nigerian email saying, and I quote, "Ok, we admit it. It was all a scam. Sorry." Now, the IP address is 1.2.3.4, but there's also a note suggesting that people not send messages with the subject "test" because they will bounce.

In other words, people are trying to get on the map by sending SPAM, and the admins are aware.

Nope. Those 1.2.3.4 were put on the map by us (the Mailinator developers). They are not from someone gaming the system.

The "test" emails are because if too many people send a message with the subject of "test" in the same time frame, they will all get labelled as spam and be bounced.

Brian
Mailinator spam map developer
http://myvogonpoetry.com