On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Another thing I've been noticing recently.. some idiot has been culling
> the web archives of mailing lists, and is trying to send spam emails to
> MESSAGE ID's of posts I've made. Check your mail logs!
>
> One or more of those would make a great spamtrap.
Actually this kind of thing has been going on for some time. I still
occasionally see spam sent to a Message-ID address derived from
a machine that died years ago. The last owner of it was an active
Usenet poster and is probably in all kinds of news archives.
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