On January 09, 2004, Mi wrote: > > >users that are constantly reminding me that they get "absolutely no spam" > >on their yahoo, hotmail etc. accounts. > > My guess is yes, they are telling the truth, and it has nothing to do with > their provider. > > While most people get tons of spam, I know many who don't get any at all. > Because nobody knows their address. It's not on any web site, and they > never entered it into a web page, or were lucky enough to only enter into > domains which do not re-sell their address. They do get viruses, though, > because they do have friends who have their address in Outlook.
About a year ago I signed up for a yahoo account and paid for POP access (to have an off-network account for domain name administration.) In less than 24 hours I had a virus in the Inbox before I had told ANYONE ON EARTH the email address. It wasn't a common username either - a combination of street address and initials of the company, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Go ahead and spam it - I don't work there anymore!) :-) Mark -- Mark Frank Director of Technical Services - eDoxs Corp. "The fix is only temporary...unless it works." - Red Green ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
