On approximately Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:06:15AM -0400, David Smith wrote: > i've had cable connectivity with charter.net for more than 1 year. until > yesterday i've never had need of an email acct there. i planned on using the > address at charter when the spam at my top-10 acct became unbearable. when i > finally got my log-in info for the charter acct. i logged in and to my > surprise there were already more than 200 spams waiting for me. > > my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does > anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been > used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? >
>From a lot of the spam I get at my charter.net account it seems to be that spammers just use some sort of dictionary and add that on the front of popular domain names. Somebody probably wrote a Perl script and sold it on Ebay! -- Josh McKinney | Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | They that can give up essential liberty Linux, the choice -o) | to obtain a little temporary safety deserve of the GNU generation /\ | neither liberty or safety. _\_v | -Benjamin Franklin