On 28 Jan 2005 at 23:50, Owain Sutton wrote: > I tire of this belief that all spam is from harvested emails. A good > proportion of the spam I receive (on several different accounts) is > also CCed to endless permutations of my surname - all it takes is a > list of first names, a list of surnames, a list of top level domains, > and software. Much easier than bothering to trawl the web.
That's odd, because when I see an email with a lot of addresses CC'd at my ISP, the addresses are all real addresses (I've checked by viewing the USR directory of my ISP's server). That shows that the addresses really *are* harvested, not made up by algorithm. This is not to say that there aren't plenty such spammers using algorithmically created spam lists, just that harvesting is real. It's *very* real. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
