On Sat, 31 May 2003, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > I did. I created more than one e-mail address > > without ever making them public, and though I > > note some of them receive SPAM! > > Were the addresses along the lines of "postmaster," "info," or "webmaster," > by chance?
> They must either harvest them or guess them. For non-obvious e-mail > addresses that are never published, they cannot practically do either of > these, and so the addresses will not be spammed. I have several accounts where the address has never been posted or even used in any public way... They *all* get spam (and none of them are generic addresses e.g. "info".) At least one of them is a combination of letters and numbers that I would have expected to resist most dictionary spam attacks. It did not. -teg
