On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Martin Schröder wrote:
> > harvest addresses off usenet. We also assume that they clean their list
> > when address appears to be bad. Has anybody tested this? As an
>
> If only...
>
> I get spam at addresses generated from Message-IDs. :-(
That kinda make sense, a Message-ID looks like a valid email
address, and you do find them in usenet posts. I'd like to
know how the FT spammers ever decided that this was a valid address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I do see spam sent to that address.
Once one spammer finds an address it seems to multiply and
mutate. When I set up my NIC handle, I tagged my address to see
if it ever got spam harvested. Not ony did it get harvested, I've
seen mutations of it used, even down to just the tag. ;(
Dave
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