[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/09/2004 02:44:10 PM: > I was recently at an anti-spam conference. I met an e-mail admin > who ran a domain that had been inactive for two years. That is, for > two whole years, the domain "xxx.ca" had NO published MX records, and any > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would fail. (xxx.ca is not really the domain; > I obscured it for privacy reasons.) > > Out of curiosity, the admin published an MX record for that domain. > He was *immediately* flooded with 100,000 spams/day. > > I believe this settles the discussion as to whether spammers clean > their lists.
I'll second that! I had a subdomain that went dead. Early this year, I resurected it to test Mimedefang and then later CanIT four years after it went dead. Boy did the spam start rolling in! At least it gave me something to test against. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
