>We got hit with it twice last year. would go something like this:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>As Len stated not very efficient but if you had several thousand AOL screen
>names and simply appended domain names of ISPs you might get lucky.
but aaaa, aaab, aaac aren't even plausible, are totally improbable names.
A dictionary attack has a dictioniary of plausible stem names +
variations. I think it's a DoS attack, sending him mail with
mathematically generated "RCPT TO:" to tie up his SMTPD server.
Len
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