* Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8 Nov 2008, at 03:46, Stefan Förster wrote: >> This has never been a problem for me because the amount of junk email >> sent to postmaster and abuse is absolutely negligible. I don't want to >> know what happens, though, if that address was used every day... > > I've noticed the same in the past, and it always puzzled me a > little... I suppose spamming the abuse/postmaster is a somewhat > faster way to find oneself blacklisted; but on the other hand, I don't > really understand why spammers would take the effort to avoid those > addresses...afterall, it's easier to guess "postmaster" and "abuse" > than the random letter/number strings I'm seeing in my mail logs.
I think that most of the poeple out there sending UBE/UCE want to make money, but the folks reading postmaster@ and abuse@ are in general not the ones who buy anything from spammers or get easily fooled by some Nigerian scam. From a spammers point of view, there is nothing to gain by sending UBE/UCE to abuse@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers Stefan -- Stefan Förster http://www.incertum.net/ Public Key: 0xBBE2A9E9 25 Zeichen, daß Du erwachsen bist, Nummer 24: Du trinkst nicht mehr zu Hause, um Geld zu sparen, bevor Du ausgehst.
