I had just created this email address last wednesday. I gave it to no one other than I used it to sign up for the PowerBooks email list. Not another soul has this address.
How is it then that just tonight I got my first spam message to this address, after merely a week?
Along with the archives, these days it's not impossible for spammers to do complete every-combination mailings. Even with a dialup connection, sending mail to every possible address at a domain would take at most a few hours. Plus there are plenty of compromised open relays on much faster connections.
Scott Holder
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