On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:44:28AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >>>Sent: 23 September 2004 15:40 >> >>>On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:14:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>>>_Now_ is it on-topic? >>> >>>:-) >>> >>>I have to point out that I'm getting spam to some new accounts which >>>have only been used to send email to mailing lists which >>>munge addresses >>>with the "blah" method, so this isn't foolproof. >> >> Well, you've only got five chars of entropy in that one..... wouldn't >> take long to fall to a dictionary attack! > >That, or someone actually quoting the e-mail address somewhere (e.g., in >another archive).
Although I used my real email address above, it was just as an example. The email address that I'm referring to was not the one above. It was *incredibly* stupid for me to use the above address in email given my theory that spammers are actually familiar with the more common address munging techniques. Sigh. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
