At 10:24 AM 01/29/2005, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >leads me to the speculate a bit. When you set up an email account, your >ID is placed in some table. Now if a person, not necessarily associated >with your ISP knows the address of that table, and how to access it's >contents, it would be trivial to read the table on a routine basis, and >find out the new user names, and determine which are no longer in the table.
I'm not sure how this is done technically, but I know for a fact that there is a certain amount of spam delivered by a method similar to this.
For a couple of years, mail for sherber.com was handled by Everyone.net. At the beginning of January, I switched all hosting to a new hosting service. Even today, when there are presumably no MX records anywhere on the Internet linking sherber.com to Everyone.net, I am still receiving a trickle of spam in the box at Everyone.net (the account is still active there). The only way this could happen is if someone accesses the SMTP server at Everyone.net and gets a list of all accounts on the server (or marks a message for delivery to all existing accounts, or some such thing).
Aaron.
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