if I may point out an anecdote, I left a dialup isp 7 years ago, when I worked for them as a consultant 2 years ago, they recreated my account.
The first 100 or so emails to that address were spam...  Apparently that address was still selling well after 4-5 years of deletion...

Alan Hodgson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:13:52AM -0400, VonEssen, John wrote:
  
We also assume that they clean their list when address appears to be bad.
    

I've seen no evidence of this.  The only thing I've seen for certain is
that the older an E-mail address is (once it has gotten on at least one
spammer's list), the more spam it gets.  Regardless of whether it's bounced
or not.  Spammers are still selling each other E-mail addresses I haven't
used in 4 years.

  

Reply via email to