>
> * Neil wrote:
> > On 8 Nov 2008, at 03:46, Stefan Förster wrote:
> >> This has never been a problem for me because the amount of junk email
> >> sent to postmaster and abuse is absolutely negligible. I don't want to
> >> know what happens, though, if that address was used every day...
> >
> > I've noticed the same in the past, and it always puzzled me a
> > little... I suppose spamming the abuse/postmaster is a somewhat
> > faster way to find oneself blacklisted; but on the other hand, I don't
> > really understand why spammers would take the effort to avoid those
> > addresses...afterall, it's easier to guess "postmaster" and "abuse"
> > than the random letter/number strings I'm seeing in my mail logs.
>
> I think that most of the poeple out there sending UBE/UCE want to make
> money, but the folks reading postmaster@ and abuse@ are in general not
> the ones who buy anything from spammers or get easily fooled by some
> Nigerian scam. From a spammers point of view, there is nothing to gain
> by sending UBE/UCE to abuse@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
If a spammer can successfully send enough spam to system aliases, then they can
effectively cause a system wide denial of service for email and other logging
function as /var would be at capacity. So spammers do have a lot to gain by
spamming those mail boxes which is why you set up an email address to forward
those emails too so your /var or your /mail/spool directories dont get full.
