Spam Research Six Month Report

In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to determine the source of spam. To do so, we set up hundreds of different e-mail addresses, used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what kind of mail those addresses were receiving. The results offer Internet users insights about what online behaviour results in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam — via Slashdot