At 10:59 PM 1/18/01, Brian L. Johnson wrote:
>I don't think the subject line is all that preposterous... Over the last
>couple months, I've been watching the spam I get, and about 40% of the
>spam I've been getting has been to one of my three Operamail addresses
>(which are all configured to forward to me)...
>
>Now since I don't use my Operamail addresses except to receive the
>researchbuzz newsletter on one of them (and I don't think whats-her-name
>is a spammer), it's probable that Operamail sells addresses to
>spammers.
I would tend to concur with the others here about the probability that the
address was discovered via another way. I know in my fight against spam, I
have discovered that dictionary attacks have become much more common in
recent months, as well as spammers taking known email addresses from one
domain and converting them to another domain on their address lists. If
your address is not sufficiently obscure, it's very likely it could be
discovered via either of those methods.
