Re: what about ip's

2003-08-21 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
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people here tend to regard stuff like your mail as spam already ...

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what about ip's

2003-08-20 Thread David Smith



i've had cable 
connectivity with charter.net for more than 1 year. until yesterday i've never 
had need of an email acct there. i planned on using the address at charter when 
the spam at my top-10 acct became unbearable. when i finally got my log-in info 
for the charter acct. i logged in and to my surprise there were already more 
than 200 spams waiting for me. 

my first assumption 
is that charter sells their users email addresses. does anyone on this list know 
how an unused email address that has never been used can have spam without the 
ip giving the address out?

thanksDavid Smith

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Re: what about ip's

2003-08-20 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:06:15AM -0400, David Smith wrote:
 i've had cable connectivity with charter.net for more than 1 year. until
 yesterday i've never had need of an email acct there. i planned on using the
 address at charter when the spam at my top-10 acct became unbearable. when i
 finally got my log-in info for the charter acct. i logged in and to my
 surprise there were already more than 200 spams waiting for me.
 
 my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does
 anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been
 used can have spam without the ip giving the address out?
 

From a lot of the spam I get at my charter.net account it seems to be
that spammers just use some sort of dictionary and add that on the front
of popular domain names.  Somebody probably wrote a Perl script and sold
it on Ebay!

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Re: what about ip's

2003-08-20 Thread John Hasler
David Smith writes:
 my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses.
 does anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never
 been used can have spam without the ip giving the address out?

Did you use 'dsmith' as the user name for the charter.net account?  If so
the answer should be obvious.

Hint: 99% of my spam is addressed to non-existent users.
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John Hasler
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Re: what about ip's

2003-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does
 anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been
 used can have spam without the ip giving the address out?

Is it a fairly simple username, like dsmith?  Those can get caught by
spammers blindly sending to common usernames.

Now, if the username were something like hkja89ZJNhks8S12 and got
spammed, someone in the organization is probably selling usernames,
but it could just be a rogue employee.

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