From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Johnson, S wrote:
> > Anyone know the best way to subscribe to receive all the spam I can
> > possibly get?
>
> A post to the "alt.test" newsgroup used to be highly effective; don't
> know if it still is today.
>
> Subscribing to Ameritech DSL might work. ;) My [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> email account gets more spam than I've ever seen anywhere else. What's
> highly suspicious is that it started getting spam before I even started
> using it.
Loren's lwilton account received spam before it was even created. It
certainly had spam waiting in the mailbox when we got home from where
he signed up for Earthlink. "Dictionary Attacks" is likely the answer.
The lwilton name had existed on a different name for quite some years.
So it got prepended to all sorts of email addresses as well as the
Earthlink address by the dictionary aficionados. That is likely what
happened to yours. (Mine is so short random letters will get to it.)
There is one "obvious" account I have that seldom gets spam. I never
use it for posting. I use it for signing up where I don't want to listen
to their junk mail that goes with other services. Of course, the very
name is off-putting to spammers. Just put "junkmail" after my usual
address. Of course, it goes through all the same filters as the other
aliases I have and ends up in the same account. So it's no big deal
if it starts acquiring additional spam. It'll just skew my long term
statistics a little. Now the account with a name like "spuzzwickie"
can be expected to remain clean if used VERY selectively. But, why
not feed it through the filters, too?
{^_-}
