Justin Mason mentioned Project Honeypot on the SpamAssassin Users list shortly after they opened things up for public use:
On Monday, October 25, 2004, 1:26:55 PM, Justin Mason wrote:
seems interesting, they plan to share their resulting corpora, and they seem like nice guys too [...]
--j.
I've donated 25 MX records to Project Honeypot so far. It looks like a good project mainly to provide solid data for legal action against spammers, harvesters, zombie deployers, etc. I'd encourage others to do likewise.
Project Honeypot will also share their data with us so eventually we may have another good source of spam URI domains for SURBLs.
What they need now are more people to donate DNS MX records and put up honeypots on their own sites. (The two aspects are separate; you can do either or both if you like.) Their site offers plenty of good explanations about legal, technical, etc. areas of the project:
http://www.projecthoneypot.org
So I'd like to encourage more folks to participate.
Cheers,
Jeff C.