"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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Mike O. (in ) said:

| "Mike O." wrote in message
| ...
|| On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:31:46 GMT, "Mike O."
|| wrote:
||
||| This seems so weird to be asking to be spammed.
|||
||| I've been a regular reader here for a few years. I've asked an
||| occasional question, and tried to answer a few now and then when
||| I can. I now have a request that is off topic, but I'm hoping
||| you can help.
|||
||| I'm one of the email system admins for my company. We're in the
||| process of
||| implementing an anti-spam system. One of the things we want to
||| do is experiment and tune the system using "real" spam, without
||| affecting our live
||| user email system.
||
||
|| I'd like everyone here to know that the above post was not from me
|| and I am not this guy and he is not me...or something like that.
|| Sheesh!!
||
|| Mike O.
|
| Sorry about any confusion I might have caused. I wasn't in any
| trying to pretend to be someone else. I knew there was already a
| "Mike O." here and I intended to use "Mike O'Donnell" in my post.
|
| I forgot to change my signature line when I posted yesterday.
|
| Just for the record, I'm "Mike O.", not "Mike O." Hope that clears
| things up. G
|
| This reminds me of an incident from several years ago. I ordered a
| piece of (fortunately inexpensive) camera equipment. I never
| received the order, and it turned out they sent it to a Bill
| O'Donnell in Arizona. The odd thing is that Bill is my father's
| name (it wasn't him).
|
| Mike O'Donnell

If the "Mike O" who wants to test with real spams will provide
confirmation and either an e-mail address or an FTP destination for a
zip file, I can provide about 10K that I've saved up...

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html


I thought about using some of the mount of junk mail we're currently
receiving in our "real" system and sending it through the filter; we
certainly have enough of it. We get approximatly 70,000 pieces of incoming
mail daily into our system, probably 3/4 of which is junk. That's why we're
setting up a filter system.

The problem is that the test environment is set up as "real" as possible
with the new system receiving mail from the outside via our ISP. If I send
mail from an inside source, it's routed directly through our network to the
target mail system without going through the filter. If I send it from an
outside source (like a hotmail account), the ISP for the source account
thinks I'm spamming.

Besides, we're already starting to receive some junk on the new accounts.
About 10 have come in over the last day or so. Of course I'm "replying" to
each one...

Mike O'Donnell