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Ask HN: I've been collecting Webform-spam for a year - what could I use it for?
Ok, this will sound stupid.
I've always noticed how much spam every single web-form you make tends to get if you don't implement a captcha or something like that. So I started recording some of that spam through a completely open web form
Now I have 729k entries and the DB is growing faster and faster. Does HN have any idea what that "data" can be used for?
A little more info here: http://arnorhs.com/2010/02/23/stats-on-spam/
- yannis 17y agoMachine learning students can use it to train anti-spam filter designs. However, you will need to add more details for example how did you collect them did you use a filter? If you did perhaps more valuable would have been the spam that got away!
- arnorhs 17y agoI collected them using the web form on www.spambotlove.com It's a totally unfiltered web form with no captcha or anything, designed specifically to be easy for spam software to submit into it. I was thinking about using it input for generating images or something. As a random seed, maybe. I don't know.