Two good points brought up there... 1. Webmaster is a typically found address... as is Postmaster - actually required by some standards and checksums for spam reporting... makes no sense that the spam-morons send to these types as their appetite is about zero for such...
2. Spidering even if illegal is fairly undetectable unless you setup honeycomb traps and are dilligent about prosecuting/civilly raising suit... -paris At 06:06 PM 1/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: >At 05:41 PM 1/5/03, you wrote: > >Well here are a few things... > > > >A lot of spam comes from harvesting email addresses... > > > >Does your email appear on a website somewhere? Maybe it appears in message > >archives.. Like here... > >Most of the spam I get goes to either a webmaster@ address for one of my >domains (I have tons of them) or it goes to my mindspring mailboxes with >the name munged. > >The webmaster addresses aren't harvested because some of them have never >been posted, so I assume that the spammers just put webmaster@ in front of >all the domains they scraped from the old internic database that used to be >public. > > > >People spidering for names inevitably will find you sooner or later and > >presto, spam... > >The only way any anti-spam legislation is going to be effective is if the >spammers are forced to purge all existing lists, and start over, and for >spidering for names to be totally illegal. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
