On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:30 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:20 AM 
> > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org 
> > Subject: Re: Psst! 
> >  
> >  
> > 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.
> 
> Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames
> with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe
> spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Too bad
> for them...they do not. :) 
> 

But I also have one client which gets a lot of spam to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

So one stupid spammer did put smtp before the usernames.


-- 
With kind regards,

Maurice Lucas
TAOS-IT

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