Jeff, Matthew
Here's a response to Chris Albert's concerns about Project Honeypot from Matthew Prince, the head of Project Honeypot and unspam.com.
Thanks for the clear and frank post Matthew. I'm convinced now of your bona fides.
About the Google placements: you would be surprised how changing some syntax and replacing some words with synonyms could change the Google placements. You could test this with a Gmail account, since I'm sure the matching algorithm is similar, though there might be different partitioning on Gmail than that used for websites (e.g. are threads grouped into semantic classes!?). I think with a little behavioural analysis you will be able to change the palcements from email marketing firms to spam fighting firms. I appreciate the ironic, sweet vengeance effect of the current placements, and in fact I really thought it might be an ironic clin d'oeil. However, there is so much bad faith, deception, and downright criminal intent among the hardcore spammers, that a certain apriori skepticism is often warranted by default.
Count me in. I may have some IT resources to share.
Chris Albert